[Scientists - physicians and industrialists. How radiation therapy reached Sweden and the regional hospital in Falun].

At the turn of the century the medicine is changed into science rather than experience. A great deal depending on the science of physics specifically x-ray and radiation. One of the first physicians who were interested in radiation therapy was Tor Stenbeck and later Gosta Forssell. Another early pioneer was Nils Valdemar Akerblom who was a physican in Falun at the province of Dalarna. With the help of a stipulated donation by the engineer and vice manager at the Stora Kopparbergs Berslags AB, Lars Yngstrom the first radioactive preparations arrived to Falun 1911. But already 1904 Dr. Akerblom had experimentally given ratiotherapy to patients with cancer. The hospital in Falun and Dr. Akerblom received an additonal donation form the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB.