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	Niels Ryberg Finsen - Wikipedia
		Niels Ryberg Finsen wird 1860 als Sohn der Dänin Johanne Sofie Caroline Christine Formann und des Isländers Hannes Kristján Steingrímur Finsen in der färöischen Hauptstadt Tórshavn geboren.
		Niels Ryberg Finsen hatte vier Kinder, der erste Sohn starb allerdings ein Jahr nach der Geburt.
		Auf der anderen Seite fand Finsen heraus, dass Lichtstrahlen ohne Hitzestrahlung einen positiven Effekt haben können.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niels_R._Finsen (602 words)

	Finsen (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finsen is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere, on the Moon's far side.
		It is attached to the southeastern exterior of the Leibnitz walled-plain, and the ejecta from Finsen covers the southeastern part of the Leibnitz interior floor.
		To the southwest of Finsen is the Von Kármán walled-plain, partly overlaid by Leibnitz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finsen_(crater) (247 words)

	Niels Ryberg Finsen - Biography
		Niels Ryberg Finsen was born on December 15, 1860, at Thorshavn in the Faroe Islands.
		Finsen tried to counteract the symptoms of his illness in various ways, and during his last years he kept to a diet poor in salt.
		Finsen received the title of Professor in 1898, and in 1899 he became Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, to which a few years later the Silver Cross was added.
	nobelprize.org /medicine/laureates/1903/finsen-bio.html (1547 words)

	Niels Ryberg Finsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Niels Ryberg Finsen (December 15, 1860 – September 24, 1904) was a Danish physician.
		Both his father (Hannes Steingrim Finsen) and mother (Johanne Fröman) was born on Iceland.
		NIELS RYBERG FINSEN 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niels_Ryberg_Finsen (128 words)

	Niels Finsen’s treatment for lupus vulgaris
		Niels Ryberg Finsen was born 1860 in Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, and died in 1904.
		Finsen communicated his preliminary results of the use of 'the chemical rays of light' in 1896 (Finsen 1896).
		Finsen criticised these reports, suggesting that the light exposure was far too brief to have had any effect, and because the methods used depended on the burning effect of light, which caused substantial adverse effects.
	www.jameslindlibrary.org /trial_records/19th_Century/finsen/finsen_commentary.html (679 words)

	Finsen, Niels Ryberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Finsen, Niels Ryberg - Danish physician and Nobel Prize winner who made important discoveries regarding the use of light waves in the treatment of disease.
		Finsen was born in Torshavn, the capital of the Faeroe Islands, a part of Denmark located north of the British Isles.
		Finsen established his Light Institute in Copenhagen, where hundreds of lupus vulgaris patients were successfully treated over the next few years.
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	Finsen, Niels R. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Finsen, Niels R. Finsen, Niels R. Finsen, Niels R. (1861-1904), a distinguished Danish scientist.
		Finsen demonstrated that red light not only killed out the germs in these spots and prevented patients from being marked, but also exterminated them from the system.
		Finsen treatments for smallpox and surface cancer are almost as well known as that of Pasteur for rabies or hydrophobia.
	www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol2/finsen-niels-r.htm (418 words)

	Finsen Light History - Information on What Is Finsen Light
		Niels Finsen was born in 1860 in the Faroe Islands, Danish islands in the North Atlantic Ocean.
		Finsen was convinced that it was the effect of the light and not the heat it caused and wrote several papers in 1893 and 1894 on the beneficial use of phototherapy.
		Finsen was also ahead of his time in his concept of the effect of sunlight on disposition and health.
	www.bookrags.com /other/health/finsen-light-woh.html (630 words)

	No. 1769: Niels Finsen
		Finsen was only forty-two and suffering from Picks disease, which attacks the internal organs.
		Born in Denmark, Finsen finished medical school in 1890 in Copenhagen and stayed on to teach for three years.
		Finsen meant to rationalize modern sun-worship by joining science with anecdote.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1769.htm (593 words)

	finsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One finsen is one unit of erythemal flux per square centimeter.
		“Erythemal” means “skin reddening,” and the finsen was used to measure the intensity of ultraviolet radiation in terms of its capacity to cause reddening of the skin.
		The finsen is named for Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904), a Danish physician who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1903 for his work on light in the treatment of disease.
	www.sizes.com /units/finsen.htm (183 words)

	Niels Ryberg Finsen – Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1882 Finsen went to Copenhagen to study medicine, taking his final examination in 1890.
		Finsen himself proved very convincingly that the concentrated chemical rays may exercise very beneficial effects in the disfiguring disease lupus vulgaris.
		Among the many publicaions by Finsen Om Lysets Indvirkninger paa Huden (On the effects of light on the skin) appeared in 1893 and the classical treatise Om Anvendelse i Medicinen af koncentrerede kemiske Lysstraaler (The use of concentrated chemical light rays in medicine) in 1896.
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	POL: IUPB: Government
		The administration of the ordinary funds of IUPB and of the Niels Finsen Foundation of IUPB is the responsibility of the Treasurer, who shall present his accounts to the General Assembly at each International Congress.
		In memory of Niels Finsen, celebrated pioneer in photobiology and phototherapy, the Comité International de Photobiologie awards prizes to scientists or to groups of scientists who are distinguished for their researches in photobiology or in the pure and applied sciences directly related to photobiology.
		The Niels Finsen prizes and grants are awarded on the decision of the Board of IUPB who shall decide the sum of money to be expended, its distribution (medals, money prizes, grants), and the recipients of these awards.
	www.pol-us.net /IUPB/statutes_english.shtml (1534 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Image:Niels_ryberg.jpg framerightNiels Ryberg Finsen '''Niels Ryberg Finsen''' (December 15, 1860 – September 24, 1904) was a Denmark Danish physician and 1903 Nobel Prize winner who made important discoveries regarding the use of light waves in the treatment of disease.
		Niels Finsen left the Faroes in the age of 14.
		Niels' brother Olaf lived over 50 years in Tórshavn (where he was born) and was a notable Faroese pharmacist and member of the town council (at least its president).
	www.mauspfeil.net /Niels_Ryberg%20Finsen.html (395 words)

	MSN Encarta - Resultados de la búsqueda - Niels Ryberg Finsen
		Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904), médico y físico danés que en 1903 recibió el Premio Nobel de Fisiología y Medicina por su descubrimiento de la...
		Niels Stensen (1638-1686), también conocido por Nicolaus Steno, forma latinizada de su nombre, naturalista, médico y obispo danés, cuyos trabajos...
		Niels Stensen, un danés —más conocido por la versión latina de su nombre, Nicolaus Steno—, sobresale entre los geocientíficos del siglo XVII.
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		In 1903, the second Nobel Prize in Medicine (Physiology) was awarded to Niels Ryberg Finsen, M.D., in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases with concentrated light energy, “PhotoTherapy”.
		Finsen was recognized for opening a whole new avenue for medical science.
		Finsen is also responsible for bringing early credibility to this therapy.
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	Finsen, Niels Ryberg -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Danish physician Niels Ryberg Finsen was born in the Faeroe Islands.
		Jerne, Niels K. Danish immunologist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with César Milstein and Georges Köhler for his theoretical contributions to the understanding of the immune system.
		One of the foremost scientists of the 20th century, the Nobel prizewinning physicist Niels Bohr was the first to apply the quantum theory to atomic structure.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9323271 (669 words)

	Niels Finsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860 to 1904), a Danish...
		Niels Ryberg Finsen fÃ¶dd 15 december 1860 dÃ¶d 24 september 1904 var en dansk lÃ¤kare, som var fÃ¶dd pÃ¥ FÃ¤rÃ¶arna...
		Finsen havde hÃ¥ndelag, og der var egentlig lagt op...
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	Finsen, Niels Ryberg -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Danish physician, founder of modern phototherapy (the treatment of disease by the influence of light), who received the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the application of light in the treatment of skin diseases.
		Finsen was born into a prominent Icelandic family that was involved in the administration of…
		The Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel made a remarkable series of contributions that were not fully recognized during his lifetime.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034312 (682 words)

	Denmark - Conditions of Life - Health
		As a young man, Finsen already suffered from a serious heart condition, which meant that he had to give up any thought of practising after qualifying in 1890.
		Two years later, Finsen made the great breakthrough that established his international reputation by introducing the revolutionary carbon arc treatment (Finsen's Therapy) of lupus (lupus vulgaris).
		Finsen was the first Danish doctor to receive the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine, in 1903, for his unique research into treatment with ultraviolet rays.
	www.um.dk /Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap3/3-7-10-2.asp (163 words)

	What is UVC?
		Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904) is first to employ UV rays in treating disease.
		He invents the Finsen curative lamp, which was used sucessfully through the 1950s.
		UVC is used to disinfect the municipal water supply in Marseille, France, in 1908.
	www.iaqenergysolutions.com /uvc.html (516 words)

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		Growing up in Iceland just below the Arctic Circle, Niels Finsen was acutely aware of the good effects of sunlight.
		Finsen, who was born on this date in 1860, received his medical degree from the University of Copenhagen and began his research on the therapeutic effects of light on insects, salamanders, tadpoles and amphibian embryos.
		Finsen, who suffered from Pick's disease, a chronic, progressive condition that affects the liver and the lining around the heart, was too ill to attend the ceremonies.
	www.intelihealth.com /chn/medhelp/HH/00305524.htm (139 words)

	Arrangement i Den Sorte Diamant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Niels Finsen var født på Færøerne, blev student i Reykjavík og i 1890 læge fra Københavns Universitet.
		Finsen var invalideret på grund af en tiltagende hjertelidelse, som også forhindrede ham i at være til stede ved prisoverrækkelsen.
		Finsen beregnede, at ca 1300 i Danmark havde lupus.
	www.kb.dk /kultur/diamant/arrangementer/udstillinger/13rigtige/Nobel_NielsFinsen.htm (256 words)

	Niels Ryberg Finsen
		Aware of the bacteria-destroying effects of sunlight, he developed an ultraviolet treatment for lupus vulgaris, a form of skin tuberculosis, which met with great success.
		Although phototherapy has largely been superseded by other forms of radiation and drug therapy, Finsen's work did much to encourage the radiation therapy then being developed and led to the use of ultraviolet sterilization techniques in bacteriological research.
		Finsen's Medical Light Institute (now the Finsen Institute) was founded in Copenhagen in 1896.
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		FINSEN, N.R. It was in 1889 than Niels Ryberg Finsen, a Dane, discovered that the ultraviolet component of natural sunlight, in fact, was responsible for sunburn.
		Finsen received the Nobel Prize in 1903 (04?) for his pioneering work - which led to widespread study of UV and its effects.
		Finsen investigated the photo biological effects of sunlight and even had an engineer commissioned to build a large [ELECTRIC ARC] lamp so that he could further experiment with the effects of artificial sunlight for therapeutic purposes.
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	Hero Tales of the Far North by Jacob A. Riis eBook by BookRags
		Niels Ryberg Finsen was born in 1860 in the Faroee islands, where his father was an official under the Danish Government.
		Finsen loved to tell of how they pursued the studies each liked best, paying scant attention to the rest.
		In their chosen fields they often knew much more than the curriculum called for, and were quite able to instruct the teacher; the things they cared less about they helped one another out with, so as to pass examinations.
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	Niels Ryberg Finsen Biography / Biography of Niels Ryberg Finsen World of Biology Biography
		Niels Ryberg Finsen, the father of phototherapy, received the Nobel Prize in 1903 for physiology or medicine after proving his radical theory that light rays could cure disease and save lives.
		Called "The Light Hunter" by an early biographer, Finsen was born in Thorshavn in the Faeroe Islands in the North Sea.
		Each biography is written by a biographical expert, professional educator, or scholar of the individual.
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	Wonderful Copenhagen - Natural science
		During the reign of Frederik II in the mid-1500's Tycho Brahe worked as an astonomer and built an observatory in the small island of Hven between Denmark and Sweden From here he studied the sky and discovered a completely new stellar constellation which he named Casiopeia.
		From 1638 to 1686 Niels Stensen was the scientist of the day, being a pioneer in medicine and anatomy.
		In the last century Nobel Laureates doctor Niels Finsen, who found a way to cure erysipelas, and professor Niels Bohr, who specialized in nuclear physics, left their mark on modern science.
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