(BEIJING) — For decades, China has yearned for a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences, and now a little-known researcher who helped isolate an anti-malaria medicine derived from an ancient remedy has finally won China that honor. Tu Youyou (pronounced “TOO yoyo”), 84, also became the country’s first woman to win any Nobel prize. Tu never achieved much public acclaim in China for her part in the early 1970s discovery, and never was accepted into the country’s prestigious national academy of science despite several attempts.