Hello everyone,
During this Nobel Prize thread, I've been expecting someone to
mention Egas Moniz who, while not a "psychologist", however one defines that
term, won the Nobel Prize for psychosurgery, a rather embarrassing memory
for Psychology. Since no one brought it up, I thought this might be a piece
of free-floating misinformation that had somehow attached itself to my
memory stem. Upon looking this up at the following website, I am still of
two minds, as is apparently the person who wrote the article.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh35lo.html
Did Egas Moniz win the Nobel Prize or not, and should we be be a
little embarrassed or very embarrassed if he did?
Joe W. Hatcher, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Ripon College
Ripon, WI 54971 USA
