Finsen

American

[fin-suhn] / ˈfɪn sən /

noun

Niels Ryberg 1860–1904, Danish physician: Nobel Prize 1903.

Finsen British

/ ˈfensən /

noun

Niels Ryberg (neːls ˈryber). 1860–1904, Danish physician; founder of phototherapy: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1903

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At around the start of the 20th century, scientist Niels Ryberg Finsen developed a light-based treatment for lupus vulgaris, a form of TB that affects the face.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025

The material was probably scattered across the surface when another impact later created the nearby 72-kilometre-wide Finsen crater.

From Nature • May 14, 2019

West, M. J., Ostergaard, K., Andreassen, O. A. & Finsen, B. Estimation of the number of somatostatin neurons in the striatum: an in situ hybridization study using the optical fractionator method.

From Nature • Oct. 31, 2017

Ms. Finsen was game, and asked Grady what he liked to draw.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2013

Finsen wanted to know what it was in the sunlight that had this power, and how we could borrow it and turn it to use.

From Hero Tales of the Far North by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

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