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Lesson Eight The Merely Very Good
领导送礼Objectives
To enable the students
1) To e the difference between “Great” and “Merely Very Good” (the great minds focud like lar beams)
2) To clarify the relationship between tho people by putting them into groups
3) To appreciate the author’s skill in knitting emingly scattered anecdotes of various characters into a coherent whole.
Time Allotment:
samprasThe teaching plan will be carried out within 6 periods.
Background Information
学习心得总结About the Author
Jeremy Bernstein (1929--): professor of physics and writer. After getting his Ph. D. in physics at Harvard, he spent time at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the National Science Foundation. He taught physics for 5 years at New York University and then at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jery. But Jeremy Bernstein has also spent more than 30 years on the staff of The New Yorker magazine, writing mostly about physics, computers, and other topics in physical science. He moves as comfortably among ntences and paragraphs as among equations. Some of his publications are: The Analytical science: computers---past, prent and future (1964, revid 1981); Einstein (1973); Experiencing science (1978); Science Obrved: Essays Out Of My Mind (1982); and The Merely personal: Obrvations on Science and Scientists (2001).
Jeremy Bernstein knows both physics and writing well. Besides, he is related to Oppenheimer, Dirac and Spender in one way or another. Therefore he is in a position to come to the conclusion that Oppenheimer and Spender are merely very good.
Detailed Study of the Text
Para1 Why does the author state in this personal way? 1) U the personal way to appeal to the readers. 2) U it to state the personal view; 3) this way is less resistant
Why dos the author begin the essay with such an incident?
Such a beginning rves three purpos: 1)it adds a personal touch to the subject; 2) recreating his everyday thoughts makes it easier for readers to identify with him, and in this way he will communicate to them more effectively. 3) As a link to weave the things together
Para2 J(ulius). Robert Oppenheimer (1904---1967): American theoretical physicist who directed the Los Alamos (in New Mexico) laboratory (Manhattan Project) during the development of the first atomic bomb (1942-1945). Oppenheimer grew up in a sumptuous Manhattan apartment who walls were decorated with paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin. In 1922 Oppenheimer enrolled at Harvard, where he took
an inten program that ranged from math and sciences to philosophy and Eastern religions and French and English literature, Oppenheimer graduated in 1925. In 1926 he studied with Max Born at the University of Gottingen in Germany, from which he received his doctoral degree in March 1927. In 1939, he fell in love with Katharine “Kitty” Puening Harrison, a biologist and widow of a Communist killed during the Spanish civil war, She, too, had belonged to the Communist party. They married in Nov.1940 and had two children.
Oppenheimer became officially involved in the atomic bomb project in Oct. 1941. This would come to be known as the Manhattan Engineer District Project. In Nov. 1942 he was appointed Director of what was to become the Los Angeles Laboratory, which would design and construct the atomic bomb.
People marveled at how he emed to understand any concept instantly. Almost everyone considered him to be their intellectual superior. He had the greatest memory anyone had ever en. He emed to keep all aspects of Manhattan Project in his head, along with an impressive knowledge of the arts and literature.
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Oppenheimer was also an advisor to the Target Committee, which recommended Japane targets for the atomic bombs.
Oppenheimer celebrated the end of the war and the success of the Manhattan Project, but the death toll and chilling descriptions of radiation sickness had a sobering effect .He informed government officials that most scientists in this project would not continue to pursue such work. “ I feel we have blood on our hands,” he told President Harry S. Truman. In October Oppenheimer resigned from Los Alamos.
From 1947 through 1952 Oppenheimer directed the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, which became a leading center of theoretical physics and attracted notable scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
In May 1953 when Lewis Strauss was appointed to chair the Atomic Energy Commission, he moved to revoke Oppenheimer’s curity clearance, thereby rving him from the commission’s work. In April 1954 the hearing on Oppenheimer began and in May the curity board affirmed Oppenheimer’s loyalty but denied him curity clearance.
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Max Born (1982—1970): German nuclear physicist, who published a paper in 1924 in which the term Quantum Mechanics was ud for the first time. Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.
Gottingen Gottingen University has a history of over 260 years, which was founded in the 1730s by King George II, who was also ruler of Hanover. (Hanover----British ruling family (1714-1901). When Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the crowns of Hanover and Great Britain were parated. 汉诺威,英国统治家族(1741-1901)，当1837年维多利亚登上王位时， hgnc汉诺威与大不列颠的王权相分离)
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At the age of 23: Why is the age mentioned here? He graduated from Harvard University in 1925. Then he went to Germany to study, and got his Ph. D degree in 1927. In 2 years time, he got his Ph D degree which shows that he is a bright/ intelligent young man; few people can get Ph. D in 2 years time.
Quantum mechanics: quantum theory. Especially the quantum theory of the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules
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Para2 1. What is the role of the first ntence in Paragraph 2?
It is a transitional ntence. The first part of the ntence links the paragraph with the previous one. The cond part brings in a chief character of the essay, Robert Oppenheimer
2. Fellowship: sum of money paid by an institution for the support of a graduate student, scholar, etc. doing advanced study in some field.
