Two statues of António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz GCSE GCIB (c. 1874–1955).

His research led to the radical development of prefrontal leucotomy to treat mental illness and in 1935, Moniz instructed the first psychosurgery of a 63-year-old woman's removal of white matter fibres from her frontal lobe.[2] Due to its reported success, Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949. Moniz died from internal haemorrhage in 1955 aged 82.[3] The stone statue (Figure 1) attributes Moniz wearing his full doctoral regalia of the University of Coimbra with bronze trimmings as depicted in a sitting-portrait painted by Jose Malhoa in 1932; currently held in Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon, to which the statue stands forefront. António Egas Moniz was a Portuguese neurologist and founder of modern psychosurgery widely revered for his discovery of cerebral angiography and prefrontal leucotomy ("lobotomy"). [Extracted from the article]