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Consider António Egas Moniz, whose career seems to have withered after his 1949 Nobel.

I mean, the most obvious would be António Egas Moniz.

This was a recommended safety feature for accelerator by wire implementation (egas norm).

:) Good joke, but lobotomy was only introduced by Egas Moniz in 1935, more than a generation after Queen Victoria died.

We can find plenty of quacks from the 20th century like Freud and Jung, plenty of barbarism like when Egas Moniz who cut up people's brains to change their behavior.

Let's take the example of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Egas Moniz[1] for the development of lobotomy ("leucotomy")[2].

From Wikipedia: "The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy."

Let's take the example of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Egas Moniz[1] for the development of lobotomy ("leucotomy")[2].

From Wikipedia: "The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy."