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The great success of Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman national to win a Nobel prize in science, has made Chinese full of happiness and hopes on the future of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Tu was born in 1930.
She discovered(发现) Artemisinin(青篙素), a medicine that is greatly useful for patients(病人) suffering from malaria(疟疾病). "Artemisinin is a gift for the world people from the traditional Chinese medicine. It is important to cure(治愈) malaria and other diseases and help the health of the world people," Tu said in Beijing. "The prize winning is an honor(荣誉) for China's science and traditional Chinese medicine in their course of reaching out to the world."
In 2011, Tu became the first scientist on the mainland to win America's Lasker Award because of discovering Artemisinin.
On China's Sina Weibo, hearing the breaking news, at least tens of thousands of users discussed and gave a lot of "thumb-ups." One of them called "Shengxiaxohuiyi" wrote, "Now I feel truly proud of being a medical student."
