martes, 3 de noviembre de 2015

Walking on the moon




NEIL ARMSTRONG

It was July 21, 1969. It was the day when the first man walked on the moon. The man’s name was Neil Armstrong. He was born in 1930.
When he was a young boy, he was very interested in planes. He learned to fly when he was fourteen. He got his pilot’s license when he was sixteen – before he learned to drive a car!
 He studied engineering at university. After he finished university in 1955, he became a test pilot. In 1962 he became an astronaut. Seven years later he walked on the moon. The words he said on the moon are famous “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

 

Madame Curie










MARIE CURIE
Marie Curie was born in Poland on November 7, 1867 but some years later she moved to French. She was a great scientist. In 1894 Marie met Pierre Curie. Like Marie, he was a scientist and the two of them fell in love. They married a year later and soon had their first child, a daughter named Irene
In 1903, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Marie and Pierre Curie as well as Henri Becquerel for their work in radiation. Marie became the first woman to be awarded the prize.

In 1911 Marie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the two elements, polonium and radium. She was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes. Marie became very famous. Scientists came from around the world to study radioactivity with Marie. Soon doctors found that radiology could help with curing cancer. She died on July 4, 1934.


Albert Einstein





ALBERT EINSTEIN
Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany. He was not very happy at school. He was not very good at mathematics. But he was good at music, especially at playing the violin.
After he left school, he became interesting in mathematics. After some time he became a famous mathematician and physicist.
In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics. His ideas changed physics. His theory of relativity changed our ideas about time and space.
He went to live in the United States of America in 1933. He died there in 1955.