Name the woman who discovered the first cronavirus in 1964 at the St Thomas Hospital in London?
A. Emille Brown
B. Winston Abel
C. June Almeida
D. Jennifer Austin
The woman who discovered the first human coronavirus was the daughter of a Scottish bus driver, who left school at 16.
June Almeida went on to become a pioneer of virus imaging, whose work has come roaring back into focus during the present pandemic.
Covid-19 is a new illness but it is caused by a coronavirus of the type first identified by Dr Almeida in 1964 at her laboratory in St Thomas’s Hospital in London.