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Tu Youyou's journey in the search for artemisinin / Wenhu Zhang, Yiran Shao, Dan Li, Manyuan Wang ; illustrated by Junxian Yu.

Van Pelt Library RS420 .Z43 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Zhang, Wenhu, 1808-1885, author.
Shao, Yiran, author.
Li, Dan (Author), author.
Wang, Manyuan, 1976- author.
Contributor:
Yu, Junxian, translator.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Tu, Youyou, 1930-.
Tu, Youyou.
Pharmacologists--China--Biography.
Pharmacologists.
Artemisinin.
Artemisinins--history.
Antimalarials--history.
Drug Discovery--history.
Malaria--history.
Nobel Prize.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
China.
Medical Subjects:
Artemisinins--history.
Antimalarials--history.
Drug Discovery--history.
Malaria--history.
Nobel Prize.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
China.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xiv, 116 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2018]
Contents:
Beginning from the Nobel Prize
Setting ambition at a young age
Studying at Peking University
Wholeheartedly moving forward
Encountering "Project 523"
Horrible malaria
History of the antimalaria fight
War and malaria
The launch of antimalarial research
Inspiration and success
Specimen 191
Experiments on laboratory rats
Personally testing efficacy
Antimalarial symphony
From crystal to drug
Unique artemisinin
Rectification of the name of Artemisia annua L
Each showing its special prowess
Introduction into Africa
Looking for the discoverer
Nobel Prize winning.
ISBN:
9789813207639
9813207639
9789813207646
9813207647
OCLC:
970604370

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