On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Joe Hatcher noted that the PBS website at
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh35lo.html
claims that Egas Moniz did not win the Nobel Prize.
This was certainly news to me. So I checked, at the official
Nobel Prize website at
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1949/
Sure enough, Moniz shared the Prize in Physiology or
Medicine in 1949 with Walter Hess (who pioneered electrical
stimulation of the brain in awake, free-moving animals).
Moniz was cited for "for his discovery of the therapeutic value
of leucotomy in certain psychoses". Shame on you, PBS.
Now _whether_ he should have received it is a different question.
The Nobel Foundation itself calls his work "controversial".
Criminal might be more like it.
BTW, lots of interesting stuff at this site. Well worth poking
around at.
-Stephen
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