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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niels Ryberg Finsen has received more than 226,693 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Niels Ryberg Finsen is the 71st most popular physician (down from 60th 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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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Niels Ryberg Finsen ranks 71 out of 726. Before him are Shirō Ishii, Ferid Murad, Otto Loewi, Christiaan Barnard, Herophilos, and Elias Lönnrot. After him are Frederick Banting, Stanley Cohen, Jacques Rogge, Selman Waksman, August Krogh, and Theodor Morell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Niels Ryberg Finsen ranks 17. Before him are Willem Einthoven, William Jennings Bryan, Isaac Albéniz, Herman Hollerith, James Ensor, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. After him are Princess Charlotte of Prussia, J. M. Barrie, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ernest Thompson Seton, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, and Hugo Wolf. Among people deceased in 1904, Niels Ryberg Finsen ranks 10. Before him are Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Friedrich Ratzel, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Henry Morton Stanley. After him are Gabriel Tarde, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Eadweard Muybridge, Henri Fantin-Latour, Vasily Vereshchagin, and George, King of Saxony.

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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), Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900), Kaj Leo Johannesen (1964), Christian Matras (1900), Heðin Brú (1901), Jóannes Eidesgaard (1951), Rói Patursson (1947), Marita Petersen (1940), 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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