# Niels Ryberg Finsen

> He proved that light could heal flesh. Finsen won the 1903 Nobel Prize for using concentrated light radiation to treat lupus vulgaris, cracking open phototherapy as a medical field when most still thought sunshine was just pleasant.

*Faroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Born:** 1860-12-15
- **Died:** 1904-09-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Niels Ryberg Finsen was born on 15 December 1860, trained as a physician, and turned his attention to what light could do to living tissue. His work centered on concentrated light radiation—focused, deliberate exposure—and its effect on lupus vulgaris, a disfiguring tuberculosis of the skin that had resisted most treatments. The method worked. In 1903, the Nobel committee awarded him the prize in Medicine and Physiology for opening a new avenue in medical science, one that hadn't existed before he aimed the beam. He died the following year, 24 September 1904, forty-three years old.

## Fame
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- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #103

## Topics
#Doctors, #Doctor, #Medicine, #Science, #19th Century

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