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Look at the pictures and answer the questions that follow.1. Can you name these scientists?2. Tell your class what you know about them.3. Are scientists special people? How?4. Do you want to be a scientist? Why?5. How many of them received the Nobel Prize?6. Who was the first Indian scientist that received the Nobel Prize? |
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Answer» 1. 1. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 2. C.V. Raman 3. Srinivasa Ramanujan 4. Albert Einstein 5. Isaac Newton 6. Sir Alexander Fleming. 2. 1. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: He was the former President of India. He played a pivotal role in the development of Missile and Nuclear Weapons. He got Hoover medal. He is the recipient of Bharat Ratna award. 2. C.V. Raman: He was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for his ‘Raman Effect’. He was also the first Asian and the first non-white to receive the Nobel Prize. He discovered the Raman Effect with equipment worth only Rs. 200/- and limited facilities in his laboratory. He was the first Indian scholar who studied wholly in India. 3. Srinivasa Ramanujan: He was a great Indian mathematician. He made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory and infinite series. 4. Albert Einstein: He was a great German physicist. His Theory of Relativity showed that mass and energy are different forms of each other. 5. Isaac Newton: He discovered that sunlight is a mixture of the colours of a rainbow. He built a telescope through which he saw the moons of Jupiter. He discovered the law of gravitational force. 6. Sir Alexander Fleming: Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme, lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999. It was a discovery that changed the course of history. The active ingredient in penicillin turned out to be an infection-fighting agent of enormous potency. When it was finally recognized for what it was, the most efficacious life-saving drug in the world, penicillin would alter forever the treatment of bacterial infections. 1) 1. Abdul kalam 2.c.v raman 3.srinivasa ramanujan 4.albert einstein |
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