Robert Ho Man Kwok

Robert Ho Man Kwok is a Chinese-American physician known for his 1968 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, where he described a set of symptoms he experienced after consuming food in a Chinese restaurant, which he speculated could be linked to monosodium glutamate (MSG). This letter sparked widespread public concern and the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome', which led to decades of controversy surrounding MSG's safety in food.