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Tu Youyou is the first Chinese female scientist who was awarded a Nobel Prize.
She studied medicine and a deep knowledge about traditional practices, which enabled her to be chosen to establish a team to find a cure for malaria in 1969. With the idea that Chinese herbs might hold the secret, Tu Youyou and her team studied some related literature and a lot of researches with limited resources. They used modern research methods to study these Chinese herbs one by one.
After hundreds of failed experiments, they eventually came across a chemical. Tu Youyou bravely volunteered to be the first human subject in the test on humans. The chemical they artemisinin, has now become the world's most effective drug for fighting malaria.
As one of the most figures of science in the 20th Century, she is not interested in fame and she continues to do research today her age. What she did not only saved millions of lives, but also bridged the Eastern and Western worlds.
