Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin (also known as qīnghāosù, 青蒿素) 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.
Tu Youyou - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chinese pharmaceutical chemist (born 1930) In this Chinese name , the family name is Tú (屠) . Tu Youyou 屠呦呦 Tu in 2015 Born ( 1930-12-30 ) 30 December 1930 (age 95) Ningbo, Zhejiang , Republic of China Alma mater Beijing Medical College ( BMed ) [ note 2 ] Known for Discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin Awards Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2011) Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2015) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2015) Highest Science and Technology Award , Chin
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