DAY 4: HAUORA

Activity 1: Medical Mavericks [4 points]

Over the years, many important discoveries have been made by clever people looking to help others. Two of these are women - Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie whose work has been widely recognised and appreciated. Both women lived extraordinary lives.

Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 in England. When she grew up, she trained to be a nurse and, as an adult, was sent to Turkey during the Crimean War to look after wounded soldiers. When she arrived, the hospitals were very dirty so she spent money to clean them up and to provide the soldiers with quality care. She saved many lives.

Marie Curie was born in Poland in 1867. Eventually, she moved to France to go to university. While there, she learned a lot about physics, chemistry and maths. She spent her career conducting experiments that led to the discovery of chemical elements. She was also the first person to use an x-ray machine to look at the human body. She earned two Nobel Prizes for her work.

Nobel Prizes are given out every year to people who have done something extraordinary in six specific fields of study - Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Economics.

James Peebles delivered his Nobel Lecture on Sunday 8 December 2019. at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Mats Larsson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics.James Peebles, in full Philip James Edwin Peebles(born April 25, 1935, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), Canadian-born American physicist who was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on physical cosmology.