Mme Sktodowska-Cune, the leading woman-scientist, the greatest woman of her generation, has become the first person to receive a Nobel Prize twice

Marie lived to see her story repeated. Her daughter Irene grew into a woman with the same interests as her mother's and she was deeply interested in her mother's work. From Marie she learned all about radiology and chose science for her career. At twenty-nine she married Frederic Joliot, a brilliant scientist at the Institute of Radium, which her parents had founded.

Together the Joliot-Cunes carried on the research work that Irene's mother had begun. In 1935 Irene and her husband won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.

So, Marie lived to see the completion of the great work, but she died on the eve of the award.

NOTES TO THE TEXT

¹ science - зд. естественные науки ² thesis - зд. Диссертация ³ pitchblende - уранит (урановая смолка)

c) Find the passages describing Pierre Curie's scientific career and Becquerel's experiments and translate them into Russian.

D) Read aloud the passage about Pierre Curie's career. (Approximate time of reading is one minute.)

E) Find in the text sentences with Perfect Tenses and explain why these tenses are used.

F) Find in the text the verbs which can be used to describe the main events in Marie's life.

A) Skim the text to understand what it is about. Time your reading. It is good if you can read it for 8 minutes. (70 words per minute.)

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