TIL about The Nobel Prize Winner Who Destroyed 40,000 Minds

a month ago by solbt to c/todayilearned

Nobel Prize for Lobotomy

Nonconfrontational 9 points a month ago

What about the guy it's named after, who's invention killed tens of millions of people?

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eldavi 6 points a month ago

Or the hundreds of people it's been awarded to despite all the bombings that they did

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actionjbone 2 points a month ago

Or the billions of people who DON'T have a prize named after themself.

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Brokkr 5 points a month ago

Supposedly he was quite upset about that and created a prize to honor people who contributed the "greatest benefit on mankind". Some consider it a rather noble use of his fortune. However, this story may be apocryphal.

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Quazatron 1 point a month ago

Portugal has two Nobel prizes. The other is Saramago, for literature. Both will mess your mind, in different ways.

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