The Faroese/Icelandic physician, Niels Ryberg Finsen, (1860 - 1904) won a Nobel Prize for inventing this while working in Denmark. After a time it was found to be dangerous rather than healing.
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Finsen light cure
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Queen Alexandra statue
{On a large bronze plaque on the front of the plinth:} Her Majesty Queen Alex...
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William Marsden
Surgeon who founded two hospitals. 1828 established a small dispensary in Greville Street which was the first to provide free treatment even to people not sent by the benefactors of the institution...
3 memorials
Jessie Craigen
Jessie Hannah Craigen was a working-class suffrage speaker. She was also a freelance (or 'paid agent') speaker in the campaigns for Irish Home Rule and the cooperative movement and against vivisect...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Matthew Bell
Psychotherapist who works locally and is interested in local history. He felt passionately that there should be a memorial where the denouement of the revolt took place and where Tyler fell. Up ...
1 memorial
London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, station 39
200 volunteer ambulance drivers and personnel served, 1939 - 1945. The picture shows a book (available at Amazon) "At the core of the narrative lies the memories of Station Officer May Greenup who...
1 memorial
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1 memorial
John Thwaites
First Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works and thus the first Leader of local government in London. Born Westmorland. Came to London in 1832, trained as a draper and set up his own business...
1 memorial
Soul II Soul
SW2, Town Hall Parade, Electric Brixton
2023: Andrew Czezowski, co-founder of the Fridge, contacted us to point out that the plaque incorrectly suggests that SIIS played at the ...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
W. R. Lethaby
WC1, Calthorpe Street, 20
Greater London Council William Richard Lethaby, 1857 - 1931, architect, lived here, 1880 - 1891.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sam March
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
1 memorial