Honouring Dr Wu Lien Teh today
1. https://doodles.google/doodle/dr-wu-lien-tehs-142nd-birthday/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Lien-teh
Dr Wu may be a very famous
Malaysian doctor who was nominated for the prestigious Nobel Prize in medicine,
but unfortunately it was Dr Christiaan Eijkman a Dutch physician and
professor of physiology whose demonstration
that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of
antineuritic vitamins (thiamine). Together with Sir Frederick
Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in
1929 for the discovery of vitamins.
It was in nutrition rather than in
other areas of medicine that the most esteemed and glamorous prize of all in
healthcare – the Nobel Prize in medicine was given to Dr Eijkman who was very
similar in status as Professor John Yudkin MA, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRIC,
FIBiol, Professor of Nutrition and in Physiology who was my professor and
mentor at the University of London
Dr Wu undoubtedly is the most
famous Malayan doctor in the entire history of Malaya and Malaysia. He was also
the first and only Malayan then to work at the Institute for Medical Research
(IMR) together with the British doctors, scientists and researchers at IMR. A
portrait of Dr Wu among British physicians and medical researchers hangs in the
gallery of the Medical Museum in IMR till this day.
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