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than 300 scientific works. When he was 30, he was finally
questions.
offered a job at Zurich University. E: mc' is his famous
1 How many famous scientists can you name from theory about energy. The idea was so advanced that no
a your country? one could actua[[y prove it worked until much later. ln
b other countries? 1,91,9 one of Einstein's theories about Iight was proved to
2 What did they discover or invent? be correct and he finally became famous. ln 1,921 he won
the Nobel Prize for Physics. He was very happy about this.
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But he told everybody,'l have no speciaI talents. I am
only passionately curious.'
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3 Fame achieved
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does a genius look [il<e as a chitd? Einstein was born in
Germany. He wasn't impressive as a chitd. He was very
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slow to start tall<ing and his parents were worried about
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him. At school, his teachers weren't impressed either.
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ETI ttowever, Einstein was very curious about the
world. His father and uncle had an engineering company, 1-the phone by 2 this button. To send a
and he was always asl<ing questions about electricity message, 3-- the 'Messages' ' , then 5 the
and machines. When he was smalt, his father gave him list of contacts and 6- the one you want. Then 7-
a compass. Einstein was fascinated because the needle your message and touch the 'send' 8- .
atways pointed north. He wanted to find out about the
universe, but the answers to many of his questions 5 Do the exam tasl<.
weren't taught in schools. So he read lots of books
on his own.
You are tall<ing to a friend about a mobile phone you
ETI finstein finished his education in Switzerland. have recently bought. She would lil<e to buy a similar
He wanted to work in a university, but no one thought phone. lnclude information about the following points:
he was good enough. When he was 23, he got a job in
o the phone's Iool< and size
a government office in Switzerland. His job was to look
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at people's inventions and give them a patent for their
. how to use one ofthe functions
ideas. The work was easy for him and he had time to
. something about the phone that you are unhappy with
think. He spent a lot of time writing about the laws of
physics and the universe. He sent his papers to scientific
magazines. The science world was amazed to read them.
No one had ever heard of this young office worl<er.

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