Tu Youyou Nominated for The Greatest Person of the 20th Century
Chinese female chemist Tu Youyou was nominated for BBC Two's" Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century" in the science category, together with three other great scientists—Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Alan Turing.
Icons, launched on January 8, is an epic new history series gives a description of great people from seven different fields of human achievements—leaders, explorers, scientists, entertainers, activists, sports stars, and artists & writers.
Tu Youyou, 88, is the only living nominee (represent) the field of science as well as the only Asian face among the 28 nominees.
Tu is China's first female Nobel prize winner, credited with the discovery of artemisinin(青蒿素), a new treatment malaria (疟疾). Artemisinin-based combination treatments are now the best treatments recommended by the World Health Organization. Tu's significant breakthrough in tropical medicine is definitely (pioneer), as the health of millions of people gets greatly (improve) and many people's lives are thus saved.
"Not often in the history of clinical medicine we celebrate a discovery that has eased the pain and sufferings of hundreds of millions of people and saved the lives of countless numbers of people, particularly children, in over 100 countries, "Stanford University professor Lucy Shapiro said she was describing Tu's discovery.
her extraordinary work, Tu won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015, the top prize ever obtained by the Chinese medical community.
Tu said the discovery of artemisinin is a small step in the mankind's efforts in conquering malaria and a gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world. Still, solid work (require) in the research of profound mechanism of artemisinin-based medicine.
(influential) person of the 20th century will be announced live in a grand finale on February 5 following a final public vote.
