Open AccessThe Discovery of Coronavirus – An Interesting Journey
Author(s) -
Kaushik Bhattacharya,
Neela Bhattacharya,
Aditya Shikar Bhattacharya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
galician medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2414-1518
DOI - 10.21802/gmj.2021.3.1
Subject(s) - limelight , virology , coronavirus , medicine , pandemic , covid-19 , rubella , vaccination , measles , pathology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , electrical engineering , engineering
The coronavirus, which is causing the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and has crippled the entire world, was discovered by June Dalziel Almeida - a school dropout from Scotland who had no formal medical education. She had to master the knowhow of immune electron microscopy to climb up the academic ladder and she finally discovered the coronavirus only to see her research paper getting rejected by reputed journals. A single mother is now associated with the coronavirus, as well as with a significant contribution to the classification of viruses, viral imaging and bringing Rubella virus, Hepatitis B virus and Human immunodeficiency virus into the limelight.