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She had no university degree, yet she changed modern medicine forever. June Almeida, a Scottish lab technician who started her career cleaning microscope slides, went on to become the first person to identify and photograph a coronavirus. In 1964, while working at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, Almeida used an electron microscope to capture the virus’s distinctive crown-like shape. At first, her findings were dismissed by leading scientists who thought the images were simply “poor quality.” Th

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