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Tu Youyou
Pharmaceutical Chemist
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Tu Youyou Chinese pharmaceutical chemist who discovered artemisinin — derived from sweet wormwood used in traditional Chinese medicine — as a potent treatment for malaria. Her work has saved millions of lives in Africa and Asia. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015, making her the first Chinese female Nobel laureate and the first born in mainland China to win a science Nobel.
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