Tu Youyou

Born

December 30, 1930 (age 95)

Known as

chemist, pharmacologist, inventor, university teacher, pharmacist, malariologist

Tu Youyou is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria; these discoveries were a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. Tu was born, educated and carried out her research exclusively in China.

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