Tu Youyou
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 94 |
| 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.
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