Finsen

American  

[fin-suhn] / ˈfɪn sən /

noun

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

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Finsen British  

/ ˈfensən /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

Finsen’s work won him a Nobel Prize in 1903 and paved the way for light-based therapies in many other ailments and the more recent use of red and blue LED lights for skin care and some therapeutic applications.

From Salon

Today’s fascination with natural and artificial ultraviolet light for fighting disease hearkens to the early 20th century when Danish physician Niels Ryberg Finsen won the 1903 Nobel Prize for inventing light therapy, including for treating painful skin tuberculosis.

From Washington Post

Nearby are several other craters, such as the 72-kilometer-wide Finsen crater, thought to be about 3.2 billion years old.

From Scientific American

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

From Nature