Niels Ryberg Finsen
Faroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent
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Updated 2026-05-29
Danish physician who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Medicine for treating lupus vulgaris with concentrated light radiation—basically invented modern light therapy and got the Swedish prize to prove it.
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Niels Ryberg Finsen was a physician and scientist. In 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science."
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