Module4GreatScientistswarmingup课件（外研版必修四）.ppt

成才之路 · 英语;Great Scientists;背 景 e 站 链 接 ; 科学家在每一位学子的心目中都具有崇高的地位。古往今来，无数科学家的故事都曾激励着我们。你最敬佩的科学家是哪一位？读读下面对Albert Einstein的简短介绍吧！;Albert Einstein (爱因斯坦) was considered the greatest scientist of the 20th century and one of the greatest of all time. His discoveries and theories have greatly influenced1 science in many fields.;Einstein was born in 1879 in Ulm, a city of Germany. As a boy，he was slow to learn to talk, but later in his childhood he showed great curiosity2 about nature and ability to solve difficult mathematical problems. After he left school, he went to Switzerland, where he graduated from the university with a degree in mathematics. In 1905, Einstein began to publish a series of papers which shook the whole scientific and intellectual3 world, and for the theories he established4 in the papers he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.; Because Einstein was Jewish5，when Hitler took over Germany in 1933, he had to leave the country and finally settled in the United States. There he continued his study on the structure6 of the universe until his death in 1955. Among the several important discoveries Einstein made in his life, the greatest is the creation of his famous Theory of Relativity(相对论)．; 知识点击 1．Influence vt.影响 2．curiosity n．好奇，好奇心 3．intellectual adj.智力的 4．establish vt.建立 5．Jewish adj.犹太人的；犹太教的 6．structure n．结构，构造;自主探究 1．How old was Einstein at his death? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2．What was Einsteins greatest discovery? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 答案：1.76 years old 2．The theory of Relativity