biography
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Finsen, Niels Ryberg
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1904)
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| biography:
| Physician and scientist, born in the Faroe Is, Denmark. He studied and taught anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. He discovered the curative power of light, founded phototherapy, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1903. |
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