Niels Ryberg Finsen was a physician and scientist, born in Torshavn in the Faroe Islands in 1860 and trained in medicine at the University of Copenhagen, where he graduated in 1890. He developed a theory of phototherapy, holding that certain wavelengths of light have beneficial medical effects, and published on the effects of light on the skin in 1893 and on concentrated light rays in medicine in 1896. He became the first director of the Finsen Institute, founded in 1896, and was given a professorship in 1898. In 1903 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation. He died in Copenhagen in 1904.
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was born on December 15, 1860, at Thorshavn
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Dr. Finsen died on September 24, 1904.
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His father, Hannes Steingrim Finsen
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In 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology
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was a physician and scientist
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