Unit4ForceofNature分解.ppt

Two videos about Madame Curie Video 1 Video 2 Unit 4 Force of Nature Barbara Goldsmith Who do you admire most? Why? Great scientists like Edison, Einstein, etc. are big icons in our mind’s eye. We seem to know more about their miraculous accomplishments than the strenuous efforts they took to achieve them. Tell what you know about some great scientists of the 19th and 20th centuries, both their life and their work. Marie Curie (Paragraph 1) (1867-1934), Polish-born French chemist who, with her husband Pierre Curie, was an early investigator of radioactivity. The Curies shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel for fundamental research on radioactivity. Marie Curie went on to study the chemistry and medical applications of radium. She was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry in recognition of her work in discovering radium and polonium and in isolating radium. Sorbonne (Paragraph 5) the name of one of the buildings of the University of Paris, popularly used to designate the entire university. The name was derived from a theological college founded about 1257 by Robert de Sorbon.索邦神学院（巴黎大学的前身），巴黎大学 Prize-winning author and social historian, Barbara Goldsmith was born in New York City, graduated from Wellesley College (1958), and holds three doctorates. A founding editor of New York Magazine, she currently contributes to the New York Times, Architectural Digest, and The New Yorker. She is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Little Gloria…Happy At Last (1980) and Johnson v. Johnson (1987). A trustee of the New York Public Library, Goldsmith also serves on the Presidents Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History. Key words: Madame Curie Radioactivity Woman Scientist Price Part 1 (Para. 1-3) background knowledge, why the writer idolized Marie Curie These three paragraphs, the first part of the narrative article, tell us the reason why the writer admired Marie Curie and offers her