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    Niels Ryberg Finsen (15 December 1860 – 24 September 1904) was Faroese-Icelandic physician and scientist. In 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine...
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  • Finsen (née Jensen). He was the nephew of the Nobel prize winner Niels Ryberg Finsen. He obtained a DSc in Astronomy from the University of Cape Town...
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  • Finsen may refer to: Lawrence Finsen, American ethicist Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860–1904), Faroese-Icelandic physician and scientist Susan Finsen, American...
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    measures to prevent malaria worldwide. The 1903 prize was awarded to Niels Ryberg Finsen, the first Faroese laureate, "in recognition of his contribution...
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  • politician Niels Nikolaus Falck (1784–1850), Danish jurist and historian Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (1946–2005), Danish jazz bassist Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860–1904)...
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  • winners have been from Denmark. The first Danish Nobel laureate was Niels Ryberg Finsen, who won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1903 for his work on using...
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    The red treatment was given scientific authority by Nobel laureate Niels Ryberg Finsen, who claimed that the treatment of smallpox patients with red light...
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  • Henrik Pontoppidan, Literature, 1917 Fredrik Bajer, Peace, 1908 Niels Ryberg Finsen, born in Faroe Islands, Physiology or Medicine, 1903 Carlos Filipe...
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    high school in the country. It is located just outside Tórshavn. Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860–1904), winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology...
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    skin. In 1890 the Danish physician Niels Ryberg Finsen developed a carbon arc lamp ("Finsen's light" or a "Finsen lamp") that produced ultraviolet radiation...
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