07 Unit 1 Scientists Reading B Rosalind Franklin（课件）英语沪外版2020选择性必修第二册

Unit 1 Scientists Your Opinions Do you think the number of male and female scientists are similar? Why? Is it more difficult for a man to be a sicentist than a woman? Why? ROSALIND FRANKLIN Watch video 1. What difficulties did Rosalind Franklin face? Answer the questions Her father’s disapproval of higher education for women. (without family support and understanding) Dangerous environment of World War II Women in the field of science were not respected. (gender inequality) disease (cancer) 2. Why was Franklin not awarded a Nobel Prize, despite the fact that she had provided key data about DNA’s structure? Maurice Wilkins and two other male scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, got hold of her data and published it first. Gender inequality. Franklin’s early death. Answer the questions 3. How does the author feel about the difficulties Franklin faced as a female scientist? Find evidence from the text to support your ideas. The author felt it was a great pity that Franklin couldn’t get the Nobel Prize. He also felt sorry and sympathetic for her difficulties. Answer the questions Fill in the table for Franklin’s life Time Event 1920 Rosalind Franklin was born in London. 1941 1945 1951 - 1953 Franklin graduated from university. Franklin earned her doctorate in physical chemistry from Cambridge University. Franklin returned to England to work as an X-ray crystallography expert at King ’s College London and studied the structure of DNA. Franklin left King’s College in 1953. Time Event 1956 1958 Franklin found that she had cancer. Franklin died. Fill in the table for Franklin’s life Reflect on what you have learned about Zhong Yang, Stephen Hawking and Rosalind Franklin. Fill in the table, then discuss in pairs Fill in the table with the difficulties they faced, how they dealt with these difficulties and their qualities as scientists. Fill in the table, then discuss in pairs What difficulties they faced How they dealt with the difficulties