Dr. Wu Lien-Teh was a Malaysian doctor born on March 10, 1879. He is best known for his contributions to the fight against the bubonic plague in China in 1910. His net worth, biography, age, height, family and career updates are well documented. He is remembered as a pioneer in the field of public health and a leader in the fight against infectious diseases.
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💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M
Malayan physician primarily known for his advocation for wearing masks during the epidemic of Manchuria and Mongolia back in 1910. He later became the first Malayan to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
He attended the Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur as a research student. He would eventually create the Anti-Opium Association in Penang, Malaysia. During the spring of 1906, he organized a nationwide anti-opium conference that nearly 3,000 people attended.
He was the first medical student of Chinese descent to attend the University of Cambridge in England. He was also a founding member and the first president of the Chinese Medical Association.
He was married twice. His first wife, Ruth, was the daughter of Wong Nai Siong, a popular Chinese revolutionary leader. She died, along with two of their three sons, in the early 1900s. He then remarried and had four more children.
Fellow Malayan doctor Amalina Bakri also attended Cambridge University.
