Penang Doctor Known For Inventing N-95 Honoured By Google Doodles
channel for the latest stories and updates. Penang-born and -based physician Dr Wu Lien-teh was honoured by Google Doodles today, 10 March, for his birthday in 1879. Dr Wu’s Google Doogle showing his very first prototype masks that saved countless frontliners from the Manchurian plague. (Credit: Google) It’s only fitting that he should make a comeback, 60 years after his death, in the midst of a pandemic, because this Penang doctor pretty much invented the face masks we use everyday now....
Source: therakyatpost.com