The Worst Nobel Prize Ever Awarded

SciShow explores the grim story of the lobotomy, the medical procedure that earned its inventor perhaps the most regrettable Nobel Prize in history.

Hosted by: Michael Aranda

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Sources:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh35lo.html

http://www.sciencedirect.com.weblib.lib.umt.edu:8080/science/article/pii/S1045187003700296

http://ibro.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Fulton-John-Faquhar.pdf

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1949/moniz-article.html

http://lobotomy.umwblogs.org/the-begining/

http://www.gesnerus.ch/fileadmin/media/pdf/2005_1-2/077-101_Kotowicz.pdf