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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 1,016,674 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Wu Lien-teh is the 470th most popular physician (down from 349th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Singapore (up from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Singaporean Physician.

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  • 50.95

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Wu Lien-teh ranks 470 out of 726. Before him are Friedrich von Huene, Arnold Pick, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Hiroshi Nakajima, James Young Simpson, and Julius Vincenz von Krombholz. After him are Grunya Sukhareva, Friedrich von Esmarch, Antonio Bertoloni, Gustav Hartlaub, Richard Bright, and Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Wu Lien-teh ranks 134. Before him are Helena Roerich, Leonid Mandelstam, Pavel Bazhov, Zsigmond Móricz, Grace Coolidge, and Mazo de la Roche. After him are Albert Taillandier, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Eugen Varga, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, and Martin Mutschmann. Among people deceased in 1960, Wu Lien-teh ranks 127. Before him are Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, Igor Grabar, Ward Bond, Margaret Sullavan, Toyohiko Kagawa, and Melvin Purvis. After him are Oscar Hammerstein II, Oliver Kirk, Hersch Lauterpacht, Paul Fort, Nevil Shute, and Eduard Pütsep.

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In Singapore

Among people born in Singapore, Wu Lien-teh ranks 9 out of 42. Before him are Tony Tan (1940), Lee Hsien Loong (1952), Goh Chok Tong (1941), Parameswara (1344), S. R. Nathan (1924), and Vanessa-Mae (1978). After him are Wee Kim Wee (1915), Tharman Shanmugaratnam (1957), Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (1952), Ho Ching (1953), Julia Nickson (1958), and Benjamin Sheares (1907).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Singapore

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

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