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June Almeida

1930 - 2007

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June Dalziel Almeida (5 October 1930 – 1 December 2007) was a Scottish virologist, a pioneer in virus imaging and identification. Her skills in electron microscopy earned her an international reputation. In 1964, Almeida was recruited by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London. By 1967, she had earned her Doctor of Science on the basis of her research and the resulting publications, while working in Canada, at Toronto's Ontario Cancer Institute and then in London at St Thomas's. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. June Almeida is the 406th most popular biologist (up from 460th in 2019), the 2,082nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,368th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, June Almeida ranks 406 out of 1,097Before her are Ludwik Fleck, Karl Koch, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Harold E. Varmus, Lev Berg, and Heinrich Anton de Bary. After her are Georg August Goldfuss, Auguste Chevalier, Philibert Commerson, Achille Valenciennes, Pierre Magnol, and Eugène Simon.

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Among people born in 1930, June Almeida ranks 193Before her are Jimmy McLane, Sa'dun Hammadi, Babushka Lady, Barbara Lawrence, Anerood Jugnauth, and Veljo Tormis. After her are Tanya Savicheva, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Guy Ligier, Yi-Fu Tuan, Anthony Steffen, and Paul Veyne. Among people deceased in 2007, June Almeida ranks 137Before her are Dashrath Manjhi, Sa'dun Hammadi, Delbert Mann, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, Andrej Kvašňák, and Charles Lane. After her are Fernando Fernán Gómez, Barbara West, Bo Yibo, Malietoa Tanumafili II, Mikhail Ulyanov, and Evel Knievel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, June Almeida ranks 2,082 out of 8,785Before her are Joan Robinson (1903), Eric Knight (1897), Julian of Norwich (1342), Lytton Strachey (1880), Malo (487), and Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862). After her are Vince Clarke (1960), John Wetton (1949), Louis Tomlinson (1991), William Auld (1924), Roland Penrose (1900), and Robert Blake (1599).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, June Almeida ranks 64Before her are Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), David Douglas (1799), John Maynard Smith (1920), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Matt Ridley (1958), and William Elford Leach (1791). After her are Arthur Tansley (1871), John Needham (1713), Andrew Smith (1797), Roderick Murchison (1792), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), and John Stevens Henslow (1796).