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Dec 30, 1930 93 years old
Chinese medical scientist
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About Tu Youyou
- Tu Youyou (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Tú Youyou; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist.
- She discovered artemisinin (also known as qinghaosu ???) 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. For her work, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C.
- Campbell and Satoshi Omura.
- Tu is the first Chinese Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine and the first female citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize in any category.
- She is also the first Chinese person to receive the Lasker Award.
- Tu Youyou was born, educated and carried out her research exclusively in China.
