List of Famous people with last name Youyou

Tu Youyou

First Name Tu

Last Name Youyou

Born on December 30, 1930 (age 95)

Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. 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.

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