屠呦呦：“青蒿素之母”斩获诺贝尔奖End

Speaking to China’s Global People magazine in 2007, Tu insisted she had not given her life to medicine in order to make headlines. “I do not want fame. In our day, no essay was published under the author’s byline,’’ she said.

Showing the magazine’s journalists around her modest home in east Beijing, the elderly scientist pointed to cupboards and drawers stuffed full with lab records and correspondence chronicling her hunt for a cure for malaria.

“I didn’t keep all this stuff deliberately, ’’ Tu told her guests. “It’s a habit of scientific work.’’