151 years ago today, on November 29, 1874 (October 21, 1874 lunar calendar), the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz was born. November 29, 1874 - Portuguese neurologist and Nobel laureate Egas Moniz was born. Nobel laureate Antonio de Egas Moniz (Portugal) is not only an outstanding neurophysiologist, but also a political figure. He served as a member of parliament for 14 years, became a minister in Madrid in 1917, and became foreign minister in 1918. When he retired from politics at the age of 53, he spent 10 years carefully researching and founding cerebral angiography, which has since opened the forbidden area of the brain and proposed the removal of frontal white matter to treat heart disease. Although he did not engage in medical research full-time for a long time, he also has high attainments in literary philosophy and methodology.