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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 ...
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In 2011, Tu Youyou was awarded the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for her role in the discovery and development of artemisinin. [ 78 ] [ 86 ] On October 5, 2015, she was awarded half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering artemisinin, "a drug that has significantly reduced the mortality rates for ...
The diploma contains a picture and text which states the name of the laureate and a citation as to why they received the prize. ... Tu Youyou (2015) and Katalin Karik ...
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Actresses who also won leading actress in a motion picture of China Literary and Art Circles Awards: Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress : Li Ling, Xi Meijuan, Yue Hong, Tao Hong, Ni Ping, Jiang Wenli, Zhou Xun, Song Jia; Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress : Liu Bei, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Da Song Jia
Nicole Kidman is opening up about a treasured memento.. On Thursday, Jan. 30, the actress, 57, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and revealed that she bought Bernie Taupin's original ...