Niels Ryberg Finsen,
Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1903.
MODERN LIGHT THERAPY
THE INVENTION
The Danish physician Niels Ryberg Finsen founded modern light therapy about 100 years ago. In 1903 he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in medicine for his achievements with light therapy. Finsen created the first device to generate technically synthesized sunlight and achieved outstanding results in the treatment of patients suffering from a special type of skin tuberculosis. There are clear advantages in using technically synthesized sunrays: for example the parameters of intensity and the emitted light spectrum are controllable and therefore reproducible.
