Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou is a Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.
30 December 1930
Born on the same birth date (30 December 1930): Elmira Minita Gordon • Red Rhodes • Roy Calne
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