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Tu Youyou

1930 - Today

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Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born on December 30, 1930, in Ningbo, Zhejiang province) is a Nobel Prize-winning malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist and member of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. She received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for her discovery and development of artemisinin and related compounds. Tu pursued her education in pharmaceutical sciences at the Peking University School of Medicine (Beijing Medical College) and later focused on traditional Chinese medicine at the Institute of Materia Medica. Her achievements and experience have inspired other researchers and emphasized the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2024). Tu Youyou is the 76th most popular chemist (down from 35th in 2024), the 67th most popular biography from China (up from 71st 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 67 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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