Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
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Born 1930 · age 96China
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Chinese chemist who discovered artemisinin, a malaria treatment that became a global public health breakthrough. Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015—the first Chinese woman to claim the prize solo.
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Tu Youyou is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.
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