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Controversy behind Ms. Tu Youyou, the first Chinese female Noble Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine

By Linlin Zheng | Posted on October 9, 2015

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced on 5 October. It was rewarded with one half to Tu Youyou “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria” and the other half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura. “Chinese people wish to win Nobel Prize for long time,” said Professor...

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