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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tu Youyou has received more than 1,568,353 page views. Her biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Tu Youyou is the 35th most popular chemist (up from 50th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from China (up from 104th 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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  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 83

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Tu Youyou ranks 35 out of 602. Before her are Casimir Funk, John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, Walther Nernst, Robert Bunsen, and Henrik Dam. After her are John Stith Pemberton, Gertrude B. Elion, Carl Bosch, Henri Moissan, August Kekulé, and Valery Legasov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Tu Youyou ranks 23. Before her are Buzz Aldrin, Salvatore Riina, Pete Conrad, Gene Hackman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Philippe Noiret. After her are Richard Harris, Ion Iliescu, Maximilian Schell, Carlos Menem, Claude Chabrol, and Niki de Saint Phalle.

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In China

Among people born in China, Tu Youyou ranks 72 out of 1,610. Before her are Jiang Qing (1914), Liu Shaoqi (1898), Chongzhen Emperor (1611), Emperor Yao (-2324), Xun Kuang (-313), and 5th Dalai Lama (1617). After her are Emperor Taizu of Song (927), Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (685), Xianfeng Emperor (1831), Hua Guofeng (1921), Fuxi (-2900), and Jiaqing Emperor (1760).

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Among CHEMISTS In China

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

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