Tu Youyou
30 December 1930 – present
Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist who discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, compounds used to treat malaria that have saved millions of lives. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, becoming the first Chinese Nobel laureate in that category and the first female citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Tu Youyou.
- Adonis (1930–present) Overlapped 96 years →
- Buzz Aldrin (1930–present) Overlapped 96 years →
- David Attenborough (1926–present) Overlapped 96 years →
- Li Ka-shing (1928–present) Overlapped 96 years →
- Mahathir Mohamad (1925–present) Overlapped 96 years →
- Warren Buffett (1930–present) Overlapped 96 years →
Life events
Tu Youyou was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe studied at the Department of Pharmacy of Beijing Medical College, part of Peking University.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe began her career at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe was appointed to lead research in Project 523, a secret military program to find a treatment for malaria.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDrawing on traditional Chinese medical texts, she isolated artemisinin from sweet wormwood as an effective antimalarial compound.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe received the Lasker DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for the discovery of artemisinin.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe received a share of the 2015 Nobel Prize for her discovery of artemisinin therapy against malaria.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe was awarded China's highest state honor, the Medal of the Republic.
Source: en.wikipedia.org