Egas Moniz, cited in the list, got a Nobel for inventing lobotomy to cure mental illness. He did not really embrace some weird idea once he got a Nobel: the we

Egas Moniz, cited in the list, got a Nobel for inventing lobotomy to cure mental illness. He did not really embrace some weird idea once he got a Nobel: the weird itself was the reason for the Nobel prize. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/summary/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/summary/