Tu Youyou Quotes


When you are entrusted with an assignment, you do your best.


Citations

Perlez, Jane. "Tu Youyou, Who Saved Millions From Malaria, Stumbles Into the Spotlight." The New York Times, 9 Oct. 2015, p. A4.

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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.