Impressive Woman, Difficult Birthday

Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou discovered a malaria treatment that has saved millions of lives, by studying a 1,600year old Chinese medical text. She found the herb had to be prepared cold instead of boiled, and she first tested the extract on herself before continuing her research Impressive woman. But difficult to sing Happy Birthday to.

A photo of Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou sitting in a laboratory is paired with text about her discovery of an effective malaria treatment. The punchline is that her name, “Tu Youyou,” would be awkward to fit into the Happy Birthday song, making this a humorous reaction to an impressive but difficult-to-pronounce name.

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