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Finsen Institute
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Finsen may refer to: People * Lawrence Finsen, American ethicist * Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860–1904), Faroese-Icelandic physician and scientist * Susan Finsen, American ethicist * William Stephen Finsen (1905–1979), South African astronomer Other uses * Finsen (crater), on the moon * Finsen Laboratory, in Copenhagen * 1794 Finsen, a minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Finsen
Lawrence Finsen is a professor of philosophy at University of Redlands in California, specializing in animal ethics. With his wife Susan Finsen, he is the author of ''The Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respect'' (1994).Rollin, Bernard E. "Ethics, animal welfare and ACUCs," in John P. Gluck, Tony DiPasquale, F. Barbara Orlans. ''Applied Ethics in Animal Research''. Purdue University Press, 2002, p. 114. Education Finsen attended public schools in Newton, Massachusetts. He obtained his BA in philosophy in 1973 from Lake Forest College, and his PhD in philosophy in 1982 from the State University of New York at Buffalo for a thesis on Roderick Chisholm and the mind-body problem. He became interested in animal rights after reading Peter Singer's '' Animal Liberation'' (1975). He joined the philosophy department at Redlands in 1979, and has taught courses in England on the animal rights movement, in mainland Europe on the Holocaust The Holocaust, also kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Niels Ryberg Finsen (15 December 1860 – 24 September 1904) was a Faroese- Icelandic physician and scientist. In 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science." Biography Niels Finsen was born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, as the second-oldest of four children. His father was , who belonged to an Icelandic family with traditions reaching back to the 10th century, and his mother was Johanne Formann from Falster, Denmark. The family moved to Tórshavn from Iceland in 1858 when his father was given the position of Landfoged. When Niels was four years old his mother died, and his father married her cousin Birgitte Kirstine Formann, with whom he had six children. In 1871 his father was made ''Amtmand'' of the Faroe Islands. His father was a member of the Faroese parliament for 12 yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Finsen
Susan Finsen is an American philosopher, currently professor emeritus of philosophy and former chair of the department at California State University, San Bernardino. She specializes in moral philosophy, with a particular interest in animal rights, as well as philosophy of science and philosophy of biology. She is the co-author, with her husband Lawrence Finsen, of ''The Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respect'' (1994), and is the director of Californians for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Finsen received her PhD in philosophy from Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ... in 1982. Susan Finsen was formerly known as Susan K. Mills. Notes Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century American philosop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stephen Finsen
William Stephen Finsen FRAS (28 July 1905 – 16 May 1979) was a South African astronomer. He discovered a number of double stars and took many photographs of Mars. He developed the Finsen eyepiece interferometer to measure very close double stars. He was the final director of Union Observatory in South Africa from 1957 to 1965 (it was renamed Republic Observatory in 1961). Biography Finsen was born in 1905 in Johannesburg, Transvaal Colony to Danish parents John Valgard Finsen & Marie Finsen (née Jensen). He was the nephew of the Nobel prize winner Niels Ryberg Finsen. He obtained a DSc in Astronomy from the University of Cape Town and spent almost 50 years working at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg. He succeeded Willem Hendrik van den Bos as director of the observatory from 1957 to 1965, during which time it changed name to the Republic Observatory (1961). Both Finsen and van den Bos were vocally opposed to South African government's plan to close and amalgamate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finsen (crater)
Finsen is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere, on the Moon's far side. It is attached to the southeastern exterior of the walled plain Leibnitz, and the ejecta from Finsen covers the southeastern part of Leibnitz's interior floor. To the southwest of Finsen is another walled plain, Von Kármán, partly overlain by Leibnitz. This is a relatively young impact crater with well-defined features that have not been significantly eroded by subsequent impacts. The rim is circular but somewhat uneven along the edge, with outward protrusions along all sides except to the north and northwest. The inner wall has slumped in places, producing a sharp rim edge in the southern half. There are also a number of short terraces along the inner wall. The inner wall is wider to the north, and so the relatively level interior floor is offset slightly to the south. At the midpoint of the crater is a central peak formation, occupying an area of roughly 15 km. This centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finsen Laboratory
The Finsen Laboratory is a cancer research lab at Rigshospitalet which is a part of Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark. The lab was named in honour of the nobel laureate Niels Finsen. The lab conducts research about several aspects of how the plasminogen activation system contributes to tumor malignancy and metastasis Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then, .... External links *http://www.finsenlab.dk/ - The lab's homepage Cancer hospitals {{Denmark-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |