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Unit 1. Interesting Lives. Culture today - номер 1, страница 14.

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Culture today

Winning Women

Nobel Prize winners

There are six Nobel Prize winners every year, for literature, peace, economics, medicine, physics and chemistry. The first Nobel Prizes were in 1901. Their founder was Alfred Nobel, a Swedish scientist, inventor and author. Nobel was the inventor of dynamite, but he was also a pacifist.

Doris Lessing is a famous British writer. Her books include The Golden Notebook and The Grass is Singing. In 2007, she was the oldest person to win a Nobel Prize – at the age of 87! In addition to being a writer, Doris Lessing was also a campaigner against apartheid in South Africa.

In 2004, Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Her great achievement was to plant trees in Kenya. When Wangari was young, there were a lot of trees in her country, but later there was a process of deforestation. As a result, there wasn't enough food and clean water. Wangari and her friends were very hard-working – they planted 30 million trees!

Gertrude Elion was an American biochemist. She was the winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988. When Gertrude was young, there weren't many opportunities for female scientists. But she was confident, and in the end her work was very important. Her inventions include drugs for diseases like malaria and leukemia.

Marie Curie was a Polish scientist, and she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. In fact, she was the winner of two Nobel Prizes – for physics (1903) and chemistry (1911). Marie Curie’s great discovery was radium. In the family there were three Nobel Prize winners – Marie Curie, her husband Pierre and their daughter Irene.

DID YOU KNOW ...?

There are more than 935 Nobel Prize winners, but only 51 are women!

5 illnesses, sicknesses

6 a science subject: physics, biology and ...

1 Read the text quickly. Match paragraphs 1–4 with these Nobel Prize categories.

peace medicine science literature

3 Read the text again and answer the questions.

1 Who was the oldest woman to win a Nobel Prize?

2 Where was Wangari Maathai born?

3 What was her great achievement?

4 Was Gertrude Elion a writer?

5 Why is Marie Curie famous?

6 How many Nobel winners were there in

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