Niels Ryberg Finsen
(* 1860, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands † 1904, Copenhagen)

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 Faroe Islands.
He attended schools in Denmark and Iceland -
- before entering the University of Copenhagen.

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