Tu Youyou

Tu Youyou is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria; these discoveries were a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Dates from Wikidata (CC0)

Who was born first?

• Tu Youyou and Zhores Alferov were born the same year
• Tu Youyou and Yuan Longping were born the same year
• Tu Youyou and Rudolf E. Kálmán were born the same year
• Tu Youyou was born 1 year after Gaston Glock
• Tu Youyou was born 1 year after Pete George

Timeline

1. Gaston GlockJuly 19, 1929 – December 27, 2023
2. Pete GeorgeJune 29, 1929 – July 28, 2021
3. Rudolf E. KálmánMay 19, 1930 – July 2, 2016
4. Tu Youyou (this page)December 30, 1930 – present
5. Yuan LongpingSeptember 7, 1930 – May 22, 2021
6. Zhores AlferovMarch 15, 1930 – March 1, 2019

Related

• Thomas EdisonFebruary 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931
• Steve JobsFebruary 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011
• Nikola TeslaJuly 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943
• Henry FordJuly 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947
• Elon MuskJune 28, 1971 – present
• Alfred NobelOctober 21, 1833 – December 10, 1896
• Leonhard EulerApril 15, 1707 – September 18, 1783
• Michael FaradaySeptember 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867