Tu Youyou
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 93 |
Date of birth | December 30,1930 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Ningbo |
China | |
Spouse | Li Tingzhao |
Books | From Artemisia Annua L. to Artemisinins (Hindi Edition): The Discovery and Development of Artemisinins and Antimalarial Agents |
Parents | Yao Zhongqian |
Tu Liangui | |
Job | Educator |
Chemist | |
Education | Peking University Health Science Center |
Peking University | |
Xiaoshi Middle School | |
Ningbo Middle School | |
Peking Univ. Health Science Center | |
Zhejiang Ningbo High School | |
Awards | Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award |
Warren Alpert Foundation Prize | |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
Hanyu pinyin | Tú Yōuyōu |
Children | Li Min |
Li Jun | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 547241 |
Tu Youyou Life story
Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. 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.