The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015, the Nobel Foundation's own official prize record, documents Tu Youyou's share of the prize for the discovery of artemisinin, developed from a lead she found in Ge Hong's fourth century Zhouhou Beiji Fang. Its strength is that it is the awarding body's own primary record of the prize, checkable against the foundation's own archive. Its limit is that it documents the prize decision and its stated grounds, not an independent historical account of Ge Hong's text itself or of the wider search for antimalarial compounds, which should be sought in dedicated scholarship.
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The Nobel Foundation's own official 2015 prize record, the top tier reflecting the awarding body's primary record of the prize, checkable against the foundation's own archive. Its limit is that it documents the prize decision and its stated grounds, not an independent historical account of Ge Hong's text itself or of the wider search for antimalarial compounds. NotesOfficial record of Tu Youyou's share of the prize for the discovery of artemisinin, isolated with a lead from Ge Hong's 4th-century Zhouhou Beiji Fang.
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AuthorThe Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation)
PublisherNobel Foundation
Publication Year2015
Source Typeprimary source / official record
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