Actually, the PBS article
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh35lo.html) DOES say Moniz
won the Nobel in 1949. I think the confusion comes in the first paragraph
when it says Moniz was disappointed that he would not win a Nobel for his
work with radioactive tracers in the 1930s.
This is from the first paragraph (Notice *THIS* work in the last sentence):
"By the 1930s he was already known for his successful refinement of
techniques enabling doctors to visualize blood vessels in the brain by using
radioactive tracers. He had hoped and perhaps expected to receive the Nobel
Prize for this work, and was disappointed when he realized he would not."
Here's the last two sentences of the fifth paragraph of the article:
"In the United States the number of lobotomies performed per year went from
100 in 1946 to 5,000 in 1949. That year Moniz won the Nobel Prize in
physiology/medicine for his contribution."
Michael Caruso
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Toledo
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www: http://www.utoledo.edu/~mcaruso/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "TIPS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Egas Moniz
> 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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