Form adjectives describing nationalities.

International Hall of Fame (Physics)

1. Amadeo Carlo Avogadro (1776-1856) (Italy) was one of the founders of physical chemistry.

2. Henry Becquerel (1852-1908) (France) discovered penetrating radiation coming from uranium salts, the first                  Niels Bohr

 indication of radioactivity.

3. Niels Bohr (1885-1962) (Denmark) developed a new model of atomic structure. 4. Boltzman Ludwig (1844-1906) (Austria) studied kinetic theory of gases.

5. Robert Boyle (1627-1691) (Ireland) was a pioneer in the use of experiment and scientific method.

6. Davis Brewster (1781-1868) (Scotland) made discoveries about the diffraction and polarization of light.                                       

7. James Chadwick (1891-1974) (England) discovered the neutron in the atom.

8. Marie Skladovska-Curie (1867-1934) (Poland/France) discovered two new radioactive elements- polonium and radium.

9. Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) (Poland/the Netherlands) invented the first accurate thermometer.

10. Hahn Otto (1879-1968) (Germany) won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of nuclear fission.

11. Lev Landau ((1908-1968) (Russia) was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work on condensed matter.

12. Lisa Meitner (1878-1968) (Jew/Austria/Sweden) was the first                         Nikola Tesla            to realize that together with Otto Hahn they inadvertently achieved fission of uranium.

13. Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) (Austria/ Switzerland) originated the “exclusion principle”.

14. Adbus Salam (1926-1996) (Pakistan) proposed the theory linking the electromagnetic and weak interactions of atomic particles.

15. Leo Szilard (1898-1964) (Hungary/the USA) was one of the first scientists to realize the importance of nuclear fission.                   Lisa Meitner

16. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) (Croatia/the USA)                                                

invented the induction motor and alternating current supply system.                                                                                                                                                     

17. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India) and William Fowler (the USA) discovered processes involved in evolution of stars.

 

MAKING PRESENTATIONS

Use the Internet resources and make Power Point presentations about the greatest achievements in science and the contribution of the relevant scientists.

 

GRAMMAR PRACTICE: Causation (GR-5 p. 200)

5. Translate the sentences paying attention to the functions of make

1. An ink pen running at regular intervals over a paper chart was a hint leading Jocelyn Bell Burnell to make an astonishing discovery about the universe. Nobody yelled “eureka”.

2. In the early 1920s, the British scientist Alexander Fleming reported that a product in human tears could make bacterial cells dissolve.

3. The telescope consisted of two lenses in a tube and could make a distant steeple look as if it was just across the street.

4. Unlike Brahe Kepler did accept Copernican model, and what is more, in a brilliant feat of mathematical inspiration, he found a way to make it fit the facts, using Brahe’s observations.

5. Leonardo observed exactly what happened to muscles when they moved the body in different ways, how muscles in the face made people smile or frown, and much more.

6. An Italian anatomist Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) was using electricity to make the legs of the dead frog twitch.

 

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