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People

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).Rolli ...

, American ethicist *

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, ...

(1860–1904), Faroese-Icelandic physician and scientist * Susan Finsen, American ethicist *

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 st ...

(1905–1979), South African astronomer

Other uses

* Finsen (crater), on the moon *

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 ...

, 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 ...

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