June Almeida

June Dalziel Almeida was a Scottish virologist, who first discovered Coronavirus in 1964. The new virus Covid-19 is a variant of the Coronavirus.
Almeida was also responsible for the first visualization of the rubella virus.
She was also instrumental in figuring out that there are two distinct components of the Hepatitis-B virus, one on the surface of the particle, and one internally.