Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria
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Daemicke, Songju Ma
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Daemicke, Songju Ma Author
Lin Illustrator
Published
Albert Whitman & Company , 2021.
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades K & 1
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2024 Garden State Children's Book Award Nominee2023 Finalist AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksTu Youyou's malaria treatment saved millions of lives, and she became the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize. Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in 1969, she went to work finding a treatment. Trained as a medical researcher in college and healed by traditional medicine techniques when she was young, Tu Youyou started experimenting with natural Chinese remedies. The treatment she discovered through years of research and experimentation is still used all over the world today.

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Format
eBook, Kindle
Street Date
10/01/2021
Language
English
ISBN
9780807581100
Subjects
Biography & Autobiography
Health & Fitness
Juvenile Nonfiction
Science

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Daemicke, S. M., & Lin. (2021). Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria . Albert Whitman & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Daemicke, Songju Ma and Lin. 2021. Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria. Albert Whitman & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Daemicke, Songju Ma and Lin. Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria Albert Whitman & Company, 2021.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Daemicke, S. M. and Lin. (2021). Tu youyou's discovery: finding a cure for malaria. Albert Whitman & Company.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Daemicke, Songju Ma, and Lin. Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria Albert Whitman & Company, 2021.

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