From Nature News
“That Tu won the Nobel prize is "great news", says Yi Rao, a neuroscientist
at Peking University in Beijing who has researched the discovery of
artemisinin. "I’m very happy about this. She totally deserves it.”
But there has been some controversy over credit for the discovery, Rao
points out, so Tu has never won a major award in China. She has not been
elected to either of China's major academies — neither the Chinese Academy
of Sciences nor the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
“Though other people were involved, Tu was clearly the undisputed leader,”
says Rao. “But she’s never been given fair recognition within China.””