Exercise 4. Are the following sentences true or false? If they are false, give the right answers

1. Albert Einstein was deeply occupied with chemistry.

2. Einstein’s family was Jewish.

3. The theory of relativity made Einstein world famous.

4. Hermann Einstein worked as a chemist.

Exercise 5. Insert the missing words:

1. Albert Einstein was a German-born Jewish theoretical physicist of …

2. Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for …

3. Albert Einstein was the first to …

Isaac Newton

Vocabulary of the text

Groundwork – фундамент, основа, фон

Celestial motion – небесное движение

Substantiation – доказательство, доказывание

Elliptic - эллиптический

Spectrum of colours – цветовой спектр

Binomial theorem – бином Ньютона

Angular momentum – угловая скорость движения, кинетическая энергия

Hamlet – деревня, деревушка

Child prodigy – одарённый ребёнок, вундеркинд

Lens – линза, чечевица, оптическое стекло, лупа, объектив, хрусталик глаза

Dispersion of light – рассеивание света

To bypass – обходить, не принимать во внимание, пренебрегать

Prophecies – пророчества