Pronunciation guide

Helium

Heterostructures

Superfluidity

E Comprehension

Read the text and answer the questions in your own words.

1 How many Nobel Prize winners were members of the Academy?

2 Which scientists were among those who founded the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology?

3 Which scientists, apart from Lev Landau, had things or places named after them?

4 Which scientists left the country to further their studies?

5 Who was the director of the Academy's Physics Institute before Vitaly Ginsburg?

A Use the clues to complete the crossword.

Across

1 material that can transmit electricity but not as well as metal

6 a laser is a....................that produces a beam of light

10 not pay attention to

11 something which can be understood

12 a system of rules and procedures followed in a field of study

Down

1 material that can transmit electricity without resistance at very low or high temperatures

2 the science and technology of metals

3 a science involved with the practices of machines and living things

4 signs used in maths

5 amazing

7the most important

8 a three-dimensional, square shape

9.......................and output