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Recognition for those keeping the public safe!

  • 1.  Recognition for those keeping the public safe!

    Posted 04-20-2020 05:22 PM

    She discovered coronaviruses decades ago-but got little recognition. [1]

    Scientist June Almeida operates an electron microscope in 1963 at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Canada. One year later, Almeida would become the first person to see a coronavirus using microscope techniques she developed.

    Please use this thread to share recognition for scientists and engineers that have contributed to keeping the public safe!"

    [1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/june-almeida-discovered-coronaviruses-decades-ago-little-recognition/



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    William M. Hayden Jr., Ph.D., P.E., CMQ/OE, F.ASCE
    Buffalo, N.Y.

    "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot 1819 - 1880
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