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高二英语试题
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A
Besides Marie Curie,these women devoted their
lives to science and made significant advances.
Caroline Herschel(1750-1848)
Herschel was ill-treated by her parents in
Hanover until her older brother,William,brought her
to England in 1772 to run his household in Bath.
Later,her brother switched careers from singing and
went into astronomy.Caroline followed.In addition to
assisting her brother in his observations and in the
building of telescopes,Caroline became a brilliant
astronomer in her own right.She was the first woman
to discover a comet (she discovered eight in total)
and the first to have her work published by the Royal
Society.
Barbara McClintock(1902-1992)
While studying botany at Cornell University in
the 1920s,Barbara McClintock got her first taste of
genetics and was hooked.She continued her research
at universities in California,Missouri and Germany
before finding a permanent home at Cold Spring
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3.Who was the first woman Nobel Prize winner?
the patterns of coloration of com kernels over
A.Caroline Herschel.
generations of plants.she detcrmined that genes
B.Barbara McClintock.
could move within and between chromosomes.
C.Maria Goeppert Mayer.
MeClintock was awarded Lasker Prize in 1981 and
D.Marie Cutie.
Nobel Prize in 1983.
B
Maria Goeppert Mayer(1906-1972)
A German immigrant to the US who studied at
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Johns Hopkins during the Great Depression,Maria
Anning was an English fossil collector,dealer and
Goeppert Mayer,bom in 1906,continued her studies
paleontologist(古生物学家).Her fossil hunting
even when no university would employ her and went
helped change the way people thought about the
on to become a chemical physicist.Her most famous
world.
contribution to modem physics is discovering the
Mary was born into a poor family in England on
nuclear shell of the atomic nucleus,for which she