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Tu Youyou

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q80061&amp;oldid=2554687220" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine · dated 2015
Public office: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q121594&amp;oldid=2561064827" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">professor
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q16952&amp;oldid=2547941186" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Peking University · from 1951 · to 1955
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q7970020&amp;oldid=2332740398" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Warren Alpert Foundation Prize · dated 2015
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1039400&amp;oldid=2559666815" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

Wikidata describes Tu Youyou as Chinese medical scientist.

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