June Almeida named the coronavirus in 1964—then watched her discovery slip out of her hands.

This video tells the story of the Scottish electron microscopist who left school at sixteen, had no degree, and still identified an entire family of viruses by developing a technique to see the invisible.

– She spotted crown-ringed particles nobody could identify and named them “coronaviruses”
– Her original paper was rejected—reviewers claimed her images were just bad photos of influenza
– She was later proven right, but faded from the story while others wrote the textbooks

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