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Wu Lien-teh
Dr. Wu Lien-teh (Chinese: 伍連德; pinyin: Wu Liándé; 10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960), also known as Goh Lean Tuck and Ng Leen Tuck in Minnan and Cantonese transliteration respectively, was a Malayan-born Chinese doctor and the first medical student of Chinese descent to study at the University of Cambridge. He was also the first Malayan nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, in 1935.
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