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Yoshio Manaka
1911 – 1989Surgeon-acupuncturist who built a biophysical model of meridian therapy.
Japan·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Medicine
Tenzin Choedrak
1922 – 2001Personal physician to the Dalai Lama who preserved Tibetan medicine through 17 years of imprisonment.
China·Integrative Medicine · Medicine
Tu Youyou
b. 1930Extracted artemisinin from ancient texts; millions of malaria deaths averted.
China·Medicine · ChemistryNobel
Ashok Vaidya
1940 – 2023Pioneer of reverse pharmacology, translating classical formulas into clinical trials.
India·Ayurveda · Medicine
Shinya Yamanaka
b. 1962Reprogrammed adult cells into stem cells, remaking regenerative medicine.
Japan·Medicine · BiologyNobel