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António Egas Moniz

Portuguese neurologist who won the Nobel Prize for medicine

Did you know?He was once shot several times in his office by a patient, an event that left him partially paralysed for the rest of his life.

António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955), known as simply Egas Moniz, was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography.

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