Tu Youyou has been rewarded a Nobel Prize for medicine, becoming the first Chinese women to win a Nobel. Tu helped create an anti-malaria medicine over 40 years ago and was never recognized for her efforts until now.
Tu is a unique case in that she does not have a PhD or a medical degree. At 84 years old, she has also never worked overseas.
She was recruited to a top secret government unit called Mission 523, when Mao Zedong decided that China needed to find a cure for malaria in 1967 to protect soldiers fighting in Northern Vietnam. Tu became the head of Mission 523 two years later, working in Hainan. She used components from ancient Chinese medicine to eventually figure out the key to the cure.
Source: BBC
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It is only a big fuss to a country where nobel prizes is a rarity, akin to a beggar finding a gold coin. How sad. She wasn't the first to discover a cure for malaria either.
Oct 10, 2015 14:03 Report Abuse
in other places there are many comments from Chinese posters getting angry at the fact she had to share the prize (with Japanese and Irish men).
Oct 10, 2015 15:21 Report Abuse
The fact that a MEDICAL mission to find a cure was classified as top secret tells you what china was about. The angry reaction about her having to share the award shows how small the chinese mind is. China runs on a completely different track. World peace is not on its hidden agenda.
Oct 11, 2015 21:43 Report Abuse
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