Tú Yōuyōu cóng Dōngjìn de yì běn yīshū lǐ dédào qǐfā, yòng dīwēn tíqǔ chū le qīnghāosù.
Tu Youyou took inspiration from an Eastern Jin medical book and extracted artemisinin at a low temperature.
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history
屠呦呦 and her team found 青蒿素 in 1972 in a secret military research program known as Project 523, and she shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for it. It comes from sweet wormwood, called 青蒿 in traditional medicine.
