COUNTRY ARCHIVE · 1949—1998
Nobel Prize winners
from Portugal.
2 laureates associated by birthplace or headquarters, with 2 recipient awards across 2 Nobel categories.
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Winners associated with Portugal
2 total
- António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
Born in Avanca, Portugal. Recognized “for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses”.
- 1949Medicine
- José Saramago
Born in Azinhaga, Portugal. Recognized “who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality”.
- 1998Literature
COUNTRY TRENDS
Awards by category and decade
Recipient-award counts
Prize category
- Medicine
- 1
- Literature
- 1
Award decade
- 1990s
- 1
- 1940s
- 1