Surgeons and Neurosurgeons as Nobel Prize Winners

Since 1901 Nobel Prize is awarded for exceptional achievements in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economy (since 1968) and medicine or physiology. The first aim of the paper is to provide an overview of surgeons - winners of Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology. Although the prominent neuro...

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Published inČasopis lékařů českých Vol. 155; no. 3; p. 49
Main Authors Chrastina, Jan, Jančálek, Radim, Hrabovský, Dušan, Novák, Zdeněk
Format Journal Article
LanguageCzech
Published Czech Republic 2016
Subjects
Diagnostic Techniques, Neurological - history
History, 20th Century
Humans
Neurology - history
Neurosurgeons - history
Neurosurgery - history
Neurosurgical Procedures - history
Nobel Prize
Psychosurgery - history
Nobel Prize
Otfrid Foerster
Neurosurgery
Walter Dandy
Harvey Cushing
Egas Moniz
Victor Horsley
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Summary:Since 1901 Nobel Prize is awarded for exceptional achievements in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economy (since 1968) and medicine or physiology. The first aim of the paper is to provide an overview of surgeons - winners of Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology. Although the prominent neurosurgeons were frequently nominated as Nobel Prize candidates, surprisingly no neurosurgeon received this prestigious award so far despite that the results of their research transgressed the relatively narrow limits of neurosurgical speciality.The most prominent leaders in the field of neurosurgery, such as Victor Horsley, Otfrid Foerster, Walter Dandy and Harvey Cushing are discussed from the point of their nominations. The overview of the activity of the Portuguese neurologists and Nobel Prize Winter in 1949 Egas Moniz (occasionally erroneously reported as neurosurgeon) is also provided. Although his work on brain angiography has fundamentally changed the diagnostic possibilities in neurology and neurosurgery, he was eventually awarded Nobel Prize for the introduction of the currently outdated frontal lobotomy.The fact that none of the above mentioned prominent neurosurgeons has not been recognised by Nobel Prize, may be attributed to the fact that their extensive work cannot be captured in a short summary pinpointing its groundbreaking character.
ISSN:0008-7335