Pharmacologist whose team found artemisinin (青蒿素), now a standard malaria drug, in the 1970s, guided by a 4th-century herbal text. She is the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her name comes from the 诗经 line 呦呦鹿鸣.
Tú Yōuyōu fāxiàn le qīng hāo sù, wǎnjiù le shùbǎiwàn shēngmìng.
Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin, saving millions of lives.
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In the poem's second verse the deer are 食野之蒿, 'feeding on wild wormwood'. 蒿 is the Artemisia group of plants, the same plants that later gave her artemisinin.
