Louis pasteur biography bbc winston
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Learning English
The price of vaccines has escalated and some poor countries are struggling prevent children from catching certain life-threatening diseases. The warning comes from the organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres. It criticises the drug companies which reply that they can’t make such complex medicine cheaper than they already do. Rob and Neil talk about the price of vaccines. Listen to their conversation and learn some new vocabulary.
This week's question:
The first laboratory-developed vaccine was produced in 1879. The vaccine was against what was called chicken cholera. Who was the scientist behind it? Was it…
a) Alexander Fleming
b) Albert Sabin
c) Louis Pasteur
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
to immunise
to give someone a medicine that stops them from catching particular diseases.
charity
organisation set up to help and raise money for people in need
transparency
clarity, doing things in an open way, without secrets
out of proportion
exaggerated
to verify
to provide evidence that confirms something is really true
discount
reduced price
to make a profit
to sell something for
Transcript
Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript
Rob
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Edwin H. Land (1909 – 1991)
The origin of this idea is recorded by Land as follows:
I recall a sunny day in Santa Fe, N.M., when my little daughter asked why she could not see at once the picture I had just taken of her. As I walked around the charming town I undertook the task of solving the puzzle she had set me. Within an hour, the camera, the film and the physical chemistry became so clear to me.
The year was 1944, and Land was 35 years old. His daughter, Jennifer, was three years old. This agrees well with what he told me in Cambridge, UK, when he visited my laboratory in 1973.
Land wrote:
It was as if all that we had done in learning to make polarizers, the knowledge of plastics, and the properties of viscous liquids, the preparation of microscopic crystals smaller than the wavelength of light, the laminating of plastic sheets, living on the world of colloids in supersaturated solutions, had been a school both for the first day in which I suddenly knew how to make a one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream a solid reality.
Of course, although the ideas were simple in retrospect, it required an enormous research programme to implement them. His energy to experiment, think and organize can be like
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Wallis Simpson
Wife bear witness Prince Prince, Duke understanding Windsor (1896–1986)
"Duchess of Windsor" redirects sanctuary. For description ducal appellation, see Duke of Windsor.
| Wallis Simpson | |
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Simpson, c. 1934 | |
| Born | Bessie Wallis Warfield (1896-06-19)June 19, 1896[a] Blue Ridge Top, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | April 24, 1986(1986-04-24) (aged 89) Paris, France |
| Burial | April 29, 1986 Royal Burial Prepare, Frogmore, County, England |
| Spouses | |
| House | Windsor (by marriage) |
| Father | Teackle Wallis Warfield |
| Mother | Alice Montague |
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