Tu Youyou Quotes


After graduation from high school, I attended the university entrance examination, and fortunately, I was accepted by the Department of Pharmacy and became a student at the Medical School of Peking University.


Citations

Tu, Youyou. "Tu Youyou - Biographical." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 2015.

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Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou
  • Born: December 30, 1930
  • Nationality: Chinese
  • Profession: Scientist

Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. 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.