Tu Youyou
b. 1930 · China · Medicine, Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2015
Extracted artemisinin from ancient texts; millions of malaria deaths averted.
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Inherited from1
- Zhang Zhongjing
150 – 219 · Medicine
The qinghao entry in classical texts told Tu to extract at low temperature.
Passed the work to1
- Deng Tietao
1916 – 2019 · Traditional Chinese Medicine, Education
Artemisinin's extraction from a classical formula is the strongest case for the integrative programme Deng argued.
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