Background
June Dalziel Hart was born on 5 October 1930 at 10 Duntroon Street, Glasgow to Jane Dalziel (née Steven) and Harry Leonard Hart, a bus driver.
June Dalziel Hart was born on 5 October 1930 at 10 Duntroon Street, Glasgow to Jane Dalziel (née Steven) and Harry Leonard Hart, a bus driver.
She left school at 16 to work as a histopathology technician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. She then moved to Street Bartholomew"s Hospital to continue her career. They moved to Canada where she worked at the Ontario Cancer Institute as an electronmicroscopist.
Despite having few formal qualifications she was promoted in line with her abilities.
Publications credited her for her work on identifying viral structure. Her abilities were recognised by A. P. Waterson, then Professor of microbiology at Street Thomas"s Hospital Medical School who persuaded her to return to England to work at the hospital.
She developed a method to better visualise viruses by using antibodies to aggregate them. She worked on hepatitis B and the cold virus.
Almeida produced the first images of the rubella virus.
David Tyrrell and Almeida worked on characterising a new type of viruses now called coronaviruses. This family includes the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus. Almeida followed Waterson to the Postgraduate Medical School in London where her contributions to articles were recognised by her award of a Doctorate.
She finished her career at the Wellcome Institute.
While working for Wellcome she was named on several patents in the field of imaging viruses. She published Manual for rapid laboratory viral diagnosis in 1979.
Almeida died in Bexhill from a heart attack in 2007.