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Unit 1 Great scientists Who are they? Marie Curie Einstein Zu Chongzhi Charles Darwin Newton Archimedes Stephen Hawking Zhang Heng ? Task 1. Discuss the following question with your partner: Do you know the names of some famous scientists? What are they famous for? Then try the quiz on page 1. John Snow (18131858) was born and worked as a doctor in Great Britain. He was originally an anesthetist, which means that he put people to sleep during operations. He also began to experiment using the same drugs to help women when they had babies. That is why he became the doctor for Queen Victoria at the births of her many children. At that time he lived, cholera was the most frightening disease. There were four outbreaks of cholera in the 1830s and 1840s, which kille