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Wu Lien-teh

1879 - 1960

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Wu Lien-teh (Chinese: 伍連德; pinyin: Wǔ Liándé; Jyutping: Ng5 Lin4 Dak1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gó͘ Liân-tek; Goh Lean Tuck and Ng Leen Tuck in Minnan and Cantonese transliteration respectively; 10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malayan physician renowned for his work in public health, particularly the Manchurian plague of 1910–11. He is the inventor of the Wu mask, which is the forerunner of today's N95 respirator. Wu was the first medical student of Chinese descent to study at the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wu Lien-teh has received more than 1,003,657 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Wu Lien-teh is the 349th most popular physician, the 15th most popular biography from Malaysia and the most popular Malaysian Physician.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Wu Lien-teh ranks 349 out of 502. Before him are Carlos Chagas, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Johann Peter Frank, Carlos Finlay, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke. After him are Nikolai Korotkov, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Özlem Türeci, Ibn Abi Usaibia, Johann Christian Reil, and Tasuku Honjo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Wu Lien-teh ranks 94. Before him are Sándor Garbai, Thành Thái, Carlos Chagas, Johan Nygaardsvold, Guido Fubini, and Hu Hanmin. After him are Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Othon Friesz, Josep Maria Jujol, Gorazd, Rafael de Nogales Méndez, and Rudolf Bauer. Among people deceased in 1960, Wu Lien-teh ranks 78. Before him are Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, Princess Xenia of Montenegro, Cedric Gibbons, Erwin Jaenecke, Richard Wright, and Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria. After him are Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Chris Bristow, Jules Supervielle, St John Philby, Hashim al-Atassi, and Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Wu Lien-teh ranks 15 out of 74. Before him are Muhyiddin Yassin (1947), Jimmy Choo (1948), Najib Razak (1953), Abdullah of Pahang (1959), Yusof Ishak (1910), and Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan (1895). After him are Ahmad Shah of Pahang (1930), Anwar Ibrahim (1947), Abdullah Abdul Kadir (1796), James Wan (1977), Iskandar of Johor (1932), and Ismail Sabri Yaakob (1960).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Malaysia

Among physicians born in Malaysia, Wu Lien-teh ranks 1. 

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