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Dr. Wu Lien-teh appeared on March 10 in Google Doodle. Dr. Wu Lien-teh is a Malaysian epidemiologist who created a mask that is equivalent to today’s N95 mask. In this way, Google wants to celebrate the 142th anniversary of his birth.
- Dr. Wu Lien-teh is the protagonist of the newest Google Doodle graphics
- Dr. Wu was the epidemiologist who developed the prototype of today’s N95 mask to contain the 1910 Manchurian plague epidemic in China
- In 1935, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize
- You can find more such stories on the Onet homepage.
Dr. Wu Lien-teh – who was he?
Dr. Wu Lien-teh was born on March 10, 1879 in Penang on the territory of Straits Settlements in Malaya, the territory of the British Crown at that time (now Malaysia). The father was an immigrant from China, and the mother’s family was also from China.
Wu Lien-teh was the first Chinese-born student to study at the University of Cambridge. He began his education in 1896, after receiving the Queen’s Scholarship that allowed him to study in the UK. Britain.
In September 1903, Wu joined the Kuala Lumpur Institute of Medical Research as the first science student. In 1907, he began working for the Chinese government of the Qing Dynasty, a year later he became deputy director of the Army Medical College based in Tianjin.
Dr. Wu Lien-teh – inventor of the N95 mask
When a deadly epidemic broke out in northwest China in 1910, Wu was sent by the government to investigate the disease. It turned out to be the plague, now known as Manchurian. The disease was 99,9 percent fatal. and eventually took 60 thousand. victims. It was transmitted by droplets.
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To combat the spread of the virus, Wu developed a mask made of cotton and gauze that filtered the air that humans exhaled.
The mask made by Wu Lien-teh is believed to be the precursor to the current N95 mask, which is used around the world to protect against coronavirus infection.
Wu Lien-teh supervised the production of 60 thousand. pieces of masks, introduced quarantine, disinfection of rooms, also ordered the old hospital, which was the hotbed of the plague, to be burned down and a new one to be built.
Wu Lien-teh – Nobel Prize candidate
In 1935 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the field of “physiology or medicine” for his contribution to fighting the plague as the first person of Chinese origin.
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He practiced his profession until the end of his life. He died of a stroke in January 1960 at his home in Penang. He was 80 years old. Just before his death, he published his 667-page biography.
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