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Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou’s 2015 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine honors her discovery of artemisinin, an antimalarial compound derived from traditional Chinese medicine that has saved over 10 million lives since 2000. Drawing from ancient texts, she extracted the active ingredient with a low-temperature method, achieving a 100% cure rate in early trials.
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