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bucolic_frolic

(52,013 posts) Sun Aug 17, 2025, 10:50 AM Aug 17

A Nobel Prize was awarded to Antonio Egas Moniz in 1949

Last edited Sun Aug 17, 2025, 01:07 PM - Edit history (1)

for developing lobotomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Egas_Moniz

Posted to show they have awarded some prizes that seemed great at the time.

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A Nobel Prize was awarded to Antonio Egas Moniz in 1949 (Original Post) bucolic_frolic Aug 17 OP

That award was for medicine in 1949, definitely not the same as the peace prize. Ocelot II Aug 17 #1

I beg to differ mercuryblues Aug 17 #2

He does show some of the classic symptoms, doesn't he? n/t malthaussen Monday #3

Interesting, I thought lobotomies went farther back than that. malthaussen Monday #4

Ocelot II

(126,689 posts)

1. That award was for medicine in 1949, definitely not the same as the peace prize.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Sun Aug 17, 2025, 10:55 AM

Aug 17

Nobel prizes in the sciences have been given for all kinds of research and discoveries, some of which are now obviously obsolete. But this award certainly has nothing to do with Trump's absurd quest for the Peace Prize.