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Dr. Wu Lien-teh is regarded as the first person to modernise China's medical services and medical education. In Harbin Medical University, bronze statues of him commemorate his contributions to public health, preventive medicine, and medical education. Places named after Wu Lien-Teh. Dr Wu Lien-Teh Centre for Research on Communicable Diseases ...
Mar 10, 2021 · The Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist Dr Wu Lien-teh pioneered the use of face masks to control an epidemic more than a century before the advent of covid-19.
Biography. Dr. Wu Lien-Teh (伍连德, Wu Liande, Gnoh Lean Tuck, Ng Leen-tuck, 10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malayan-born Chinese and the first medical student of Chinese descent to study at University of Cambridge. He was also the first Malaysian Chinese nominated to receive a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1935.
May 19, 2021 · Dr. Wu Lien-Teh helped change the course of a plague epidemic in the early 20th century and promoted the use of masks as a public health tool.
Jul 1, 2020 · The Wu Lien-Teh Collection in the National Library has over 840 photographs that mainly document Wu’s work and achievements in Manchuria and China, including his efforts to contain the pneumonic plague of 1910–11 and 1920–21.
IN late December 1910, a 31-year-old doctor, hailed as one of the brightest minds of the time, arrived in the Chinese city of Harbin, Manchuria, where winter showed no mercy with its relentless harsh grip.
Feb 20, 2024 · Wu Lien-teh is credited with designing a precursor to the N95 mask to fight the literal plague in what is now Northern China. Google. His big moment — When news of a deadly plague in Northern...
