Tu Youyou Date of birth: 30 December, 1930 Place of birth: Ningbo, Zhejiang, China Education: 1951-1955: Beijing Medical College (now Peking University Healthy Science Centre) Working Experience: 1955-present: China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Major Achievements: 1969: Worked as the leader of a research team aiming to fight against malaria (疟疾) 1972: Managed to extract qinghaosu from a Chinese herb, which is very useful in fighting malaria 1986: Get a New Drug Certificate for ginghaosu, by the Ministry of Health of China 2015: Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019: Named for "The Greatest Person of the 20th Century" |
