Finsen

[ fin-suhn ]

noun

1. Niels Ry·berg [neels , ry, -be, r], 1860–1904, Danish physician: Nobel Prize 1903.

Finsen

/ ˈfensən /

noun

1. FinsenNiels Ryberg18601904MDanishMEDICINE: physician Niels Ryberg (neːls ˈryber). 1860–1904, Danish physician; founder of phototherapy: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1903

Example Sentences

Today’s fascination with natural and artificial ultraviolet light for fighting disease hearkens to the early 20th century when Danish physician Niels Ryberg Finsen won the 1903 Nobel Prize for inventing light therapy, including for treating painful skin tuberculosis.

From Washington Post

Nearby are several other craters, such as the 72-kilometer-wide Finsen crater, thought to be about 3.2 billion years old.

From Scientific American

The material was probably scattered across the surface when another impact later created the nearby 72-kilometre-wide Finsen crater.

From Nature

The material was likely scattered across the surface when another impact later created the nearby 72-kilometre-wide Finsen crater.

From Nature

The authors suggest that these components represent deep-seated materials, potentially from the lunar mantle, that were excavated when the South Pole–Aitken Basin formed and then, possibly, redistributed as ejecta from the impact event associated with the creation of the nearby 72-km-diameter Finsen Crater.

From Nature