On October 5, 2015, the pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on artemisinin, a drug against malaria. The next morning, she read a statement to reporters from a sheet of paper. The prize for artemisinin research, she said, “is the result of the research team’s joint effort, and it is the collective honor of Chinese scientists.”
At home, her part had long been disputed. Chinese Wikipedia notes that mainland China did not readily recognize individual contributions at the time. For forty years, her contribution was not generally acknowledged there.