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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Wenhu, 1808-1885, author.
- Shao, Yiran, author.
- Li, Dan (Author), author.
- Wang, Manyuan, 1976- author.
- 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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