In March of 1977,a team of pharmacologists and chemists published a one-page article in Chinese Science Bulletin[1],which reports that the antimalarial component present in the traditional Chinese herb Artemisia annua L.(sweet wormwood)is a sesquiterpene endoperoxide lactone,and they named it artemisinin.Mrs.Youyou Tu,a woman scientist,is one of the authors who formed the famous In March of 1977, a team of pharmacologists and chemists published a one-page article in the Chinese Science Bulletin [1], which reports that the antimalarial component present in the traditional Chinese herb Artemisia annua L. (sweet wormwood) is a sesquiterpene endoperoxide lactone , and they named it artemisinin.Mrs.Youyou Tu, a woman scientist, is one of the authors who formed the famous