The Nobel Prize: 100 Years of Creativity

http://www.exploratorium.edu/nobel/funfacts.html

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In 1926, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Johannes Fibiger for “finding a cure for cancer”. That claim (and award) appears to have been overly optimistic.

nThe developer of the prefrontal lobotomy, Antonio Moniz, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949. This treatment for schizophrenia was abandoned in the 1960's.

nA Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Julius Wagner von Jauregg for “proving” that fevers cured mental illness. Ooops!