# Tu Youyou (1930-)
## Identity
- **Name:** Tu Youyou
- **Sex:** Female
- **Era:** Modern
- **Domain:** Parasitology, pharmacology, traditional medicine chemistry
- **Ancestry:** Chinese, Han, East Asian
## Trait Scores
analytical_reasoning: 0.85
creativity: 0.70
risk_tolerance: 0.70
empathy: 0.75
persistence: 0.95
verbal_fluency: 0.50
spatial_reasoning: 0.65
introversion: 0.70
conscientiousness: 0.90
openness_to_experience: 0.75
emotional_resilience: 0.85
mathematical_intuition: 0.50
leadership_drive: 0.55
aesthetic_sensitivity: 0.50
pattern_recognition: 0.80
immune_robustness: 0.40
metabolic_efficiency: 0.50
longevity_predisposition: 0.70
stress_response: 0.80
circadian_regulation: 0.55
sensory_acuity: 0.65
hypoxia_tolerance: 0.35
neuroplasticity: 0.70
memory_consolidation: 0.80
social_dominance: 0.35
obsessive_focus: 0.85
## Summary
Screened 2,000 traditional Chinese medicine recipes to find artemisinin for malaria. Tested it on herself first. Worked through the Cultural Revolution without a PhD, a medical degree, or overseas training. No professional title when she won the Nobel. Proved that systematic screening of traditional knowledge could yield modern drugs. Quiet, methodical, unstoppable.