Tu Youyou is the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel science prize.
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Her given name 呦呦 comes from the Shijing line '呦呦鹿鸣,食野之蒿' — 'the deer call yōu-yōu, feeding on wild wormwood'. The wormwood (蒿) in the poem is the same plant family from which she later isolated artemisinin (青蒿素) — a fitting coincidence.
