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A Woman to Know: June Almeida

A Woman to Know: June Almeida

Attention to detail, patience and persistence. June Almeida had those qualities in spades. — Kenneth McIntosh

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Attention to detail, patience and persistence. June Almeida had those qualities in spades. — Kenneth McIntosh

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June grew up in Scotland but later worked in London and Toronto, honing her mastery with the electron microscope and identifying an entirely new world of cells and viruses. In 1966, when she was just 34, she discovere…

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