Niels Ryberg Finsen
Faroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent · Denmark · Doctors · Lived 1860 to 1904 · aged 43
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Something wrong?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.
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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.
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