Malaysian Doctor Who Conceived Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Movement Dies At 96
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Datuk Dr Ronald McCoy spent decades speaking out against nuclear weapons alongside a career as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and was best known for starting the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
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His son David McCoy confirmed his death to radio station BFM 89.9 on Tuesday (1 Sep).
Born in Seremban in 1930, McCoy studied at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur before joining the first batch of medical students at Universiti Malaya in Singapore in 1949.
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