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An Appeal From Mao Led Tu Youyou to a Nobel Prize

On October 5, 2015, 84-year-old pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, becoming the first Chinese national to win a Nobel in the sciences, and the first Chinese woman to win any Nobel award. Tu, who was honored with her share of the prize for discovering the malaria drug Artemisinin, found inspiration from traditional Chinese medicine in part of a secret project set up by Mao Zedong at the height of the Cultural Revolution.