Niels Ryberg Finsen
1860-1904
Danish physician best known for developing the Finsen treatment, which used artificial light to treat skin conditions. The Finsen lamp (developed in 1893) directed a carb...
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Finsen Light
The finsen light, named for its inventor, Niels Tyberg Finsen, was a powerful light used to cure people of a skin disorder. Niels Finsen was born in 1860 in the Faroe Islands, Danish isla...
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Finsen Light
The finsen light, named for its inventor, Niels Tyberg Finsen, was a powerful light used to cure people of a skin disorder. Niels Finsen was born in 1860 in the Faroe Islands, Danish isla...
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Niels Ryberg Finsen, the father of phototherapy, received the Nobel Prize in 1903 for physiology or medicine after proving his radical theory that light rays could cure disease and save lives. Called ...
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