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Niels Ryberg Finsen

1860 - 1904

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Niels Ryberg Finsen (15 December 1860 – 24 September 1904) was a physician and scientist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Niels Ryberg Finsen is the 39th most popular physician (up from 71st in 2019), the most popular biography from Faroe Islands and the most popular Physician.

Niels Ryberg Finsen is most famous for his discovery of the treatment of lupus vulgaris, a skin disease, with light.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Niels Ryberg Finsen ranks 39 out of 726. Before him are Qa'a, Li Ching-Yuen, Rudolf Virchow, Camillo Golgi, Paul Ehrlich, and James Black. After him are Otto Heinrich Warburg, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Marcello Malpighi, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Claude Bernard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Niels Ryberg Finsen ranks 11. Before him are Theodor Herzl, Eduard Buchner, Raymond Poincaré, Willem Einthoven, Isaac Albéniz, and William Jennings Bryan. After him are Kanō Jigorō, Herman Hollerith, James Ensor, J. M. Barrie, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and Anders Zorn. Among people deceased in 1904, Niels Ryberg Finsen ranks 7. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Antonín Dvořák, Theodor Herzl, Jamsetji Tata, Murad V, and Isabella II of Spain. After him are Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Friedrich Ratzel, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, Eadweard Muybridge, and Gabriel Tarde.

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In Faroe Islands

Among people born in Faroe Islands, Niels Ryberg Finsen ranks 1 out of 27. After him are William Heinesen (1900), Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb (1819), Símun av Skarði (1872), Jóannes Eidesgaard (1951), Christian Matras (1900), Kaj Leo Johannesen (1964), Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900), Heðin Brú (1901), Eivør Pálsdóttir (1983), Rói Patursson (1947), and Aksel V. Johannesen (1972).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Faroe Islands

Among physicians born in Faroe Islands, Niels Ryberg Finsen ranks 1. 

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