The First Chinese Woman To Win A Nobel Prize

Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine, said today she was "not really surprised" to be recognised after a remarkable career which saw her team test a breakthrough malaria drug on themselves during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.

Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine, said today she was "not really surprised" to be recognised after a remarkable career which saw her team test a breakthrough malaria drug on themselves during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.