About the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949
Walter Hess Egas Moniz
Walter Rudolf Hess
Prize share: 1/2
Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 was divided equally between Walter Rudolf Hess "for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs" and Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses".
