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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 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 1,479,764 page views. Her biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Tu Youyou is the 50th most popular chemist (down from 33rd in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from China (down from 84th 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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  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Tu Youyou ranks 50 out of 509. Before her are Theodor Svedberg, William Crookes, Gerty Cori, Paul Karrer, Joseph Black, and Francis William Aston. After her are Julius Lothar Meyer, Paul Sabatier, Fritz Pregl, Adolf Butenandt, Hans Fischer, and Kurt Alder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Tu Youyou ranks 30. Before her are Pete Conrad, Philippe Noiret, Maximilian Schell, Ion Iliescu, Claude Chabrol, and Niki de Saint Phalle. After her are Harold Pinter, Immanuel Wallerstein, Gary Becker, Bernie Ecclestone, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, and Biljana Plavšić.

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In China

Among people born in China, Tu Youyou ranks 105 out of 1,392. Before her are 13th Dalai Lama (1876), Milarepa (1052), Wu Cheng'en (1500), Emperor Yang of Sui (569), Jingtai Emperor (1428), and Lin Biao (1907). After her are Jiang Ziya (-1090), Jiajing Emperor (1507), Chenghua Emperor (1447), Emperor Renzong of Song (1010), Zhao Ziyang (1919), and Walter Houser Brattain (1902).

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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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