Know the scientist: Tu Youyou
The Hindu
In 2015, Tu became the first Chinese Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine
(Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. .) Tu Youyou is a Chinese scientist, known for her . She won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (shared with Irish-born American parasitologist William Campbell and Japanese microbiologist Omura Satoshi). Tu was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, in 1930. A tuberculosis infection at 16 interrupted her education for two years, but inspired her to pursue medical research. In 1955, Tu graduated from Beijing Medical University School of Pharmacy and continued her research on Chinese herbal medicine in the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. After graduation, Tu worked at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing.
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