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Tu Youyou

1930 - Today

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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. For her work, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and the first female citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize in any category. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tu Youyou is the 76th most popular chemist (down from 35th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from China (up from 72nd in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Chemist.

Tu youyou was most famous for discovering artemisinin, a drug that has been used to cure malaria.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Tu Youyou ranks 76 out of 602. Before her are Gertrude B. Elion, Dorothy Hodgkin, William Giauque, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Karl Ziegler, and Hermann Staudinger. After her are Paul Sabatier, Albert Hofmann, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Frederick Sanger, and Carl Bosch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Tu Youyou ranks 27. Before her are Baudouin of Belgium, Pete Conrad, John Young, Buzz Aldrin, Ed White, and Jean-Louis Trintignant. After her are Salvatore Riina, Ion Iliescu, Frank Lucas, Silvana Mangano, Maximilian Schell, and Philippe Noiret.

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In China

Among people born in China, Tu Youyou ranks 68 out of 1,610. Before her are Liu Shaoqi (1898), Sima Yi (179), Cao Pi (187), Wang Mang (-45), 5th Dalai Lama (1617), and Li Si (-280). After her are Hua Guofeng (1921), Xiang Yu (-232), Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (685), Jet Li (1963), Külüg Khan (1281), and Chongzhen Emperor (1611).

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Among CHEMISTS In China

Among chemists born in China, Tu Youyou ranks 1. After her are Ei-ichi Negishi (1935), and Edmond H. Fischer (1920).

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