Finsen
[ fin-suhn ]
/ ˈfɪn sən /
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noun
Niels Ry·berg [neels -ry-ber], /nils ˈrü bɛr/, 1860–1904, Danish physician: Nobel Prize 1903.
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Finsen
/ (Danish ˈfensən) /
noun
Niels Ryberg (neːls ˈryber). 1860–1904, Danish physician; founder of phototherapy: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1903
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Finsen
[ fĭn′sən ]
Danish physician. He won a 1903 Nobel Prize for developing a method of treating skin diseases with ultraviolet light.
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