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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 was divided equally between Walter Rudolf Hess "for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs" and António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses".
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded annually by the Swedish Karolinska Institute to scientists in the various fields of physiology or medicine.
YearImageLaureate [a]Country [b]Drew Weissman (b. 1959)"for their discoveries concerning ...Katalin Karikó (b. 1955)Hungary United States"for their discoveries concerning ...Svante Pääbo (b. 1955)"for his discoveries concerning the ...Ardem Patapoutian (b. 1967)Lebanon United States"for the discovery of receptors for ...As of 2023, 115 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been awarded to 227 laureates, 214 men and 13 women. The first one was awarded in 1901 to the German physiologist, Emil von Behring, for his work on serum therapy and the development of a vaccine against diphtheria.
Walter Rudolf Hess (17 March 1881 – 12 August 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs.
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is awarded, according to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the fields of physiology or medicine.
The 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared by 2 physicians—the Swiss physiologist Walter Rudolf Hess and the Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz (1874-1955) for their work on the brain.
