Nobel recognition

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Chinese Professor Tu Youyou, 84, who discovered an anti-malaria drug and shares the Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology with two scientists who also developed anti-parasitic drugs, receiving her award from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden in Stockholm on Thursday.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on December 12, 2015, with the headline Nobel recognition. Subscribe