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Reading Comprehension Quiz

Name:______________________________ /5
Class 6 :__________

Emmy Noether
Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists who
has ever lived. He is best known for his theory of relativity,
which explains how objects behave in space and time.
What few people know is that the math that made
Einstein's theory possible was the work of a woman
named Emmy Noether.
Noether was born in Germany in 1882. Her father was a
mathematician, and Emmy showed an early ability in math. She did
well in school and earned her doctorate in 1907, despite the
government of her time believing that admitting women into
academics would “overthrow all academic order.” While Einstein
was working on his scientific theories, Noether was teaching math,
without being paid for her work, at her local university.
In 1915, Noether was invited to the University of Göttingen to help
two world-renowned mathematicians with a problem. Einstein's new
theory of gravity, or general relativity, which had been published
earlier that year, seemed to contradict the well-established principle
of physics called the conservation of energy. This principle says that
while energy can and does change forms, it cannot be destroyed.
The total amount of energy in the universe remains constant.
Noether agreed to help try to solve the problem and reconcile the
two theories. Her solution showed that energy is always conserved,
though the conservation may require a sufficiently large expanse of
space to actually work out.
As a result of this work, Noether was hired by the university and
finally began to get paid. While there, she developed the theorem
for which she is best known, which says that every symmetry has an
associated conservation law, and for every conservation law, there's
an associated symmetry. In 1932, she was the first woman ever to
give the keynote speech at the International Congress of

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Mathematicians. Of the 420 mathematicians gathered, she was also


the only woman in attendance.
A few months later, the Nazis forbid Jewish professors from
teaching in German universities, and Noether, who was Jewish, lost
QUESTIONS: Emmy Noether
her job. While Einstein moved to the United States and worked at
A. WhatPrinceton,
kind of person is Noether?
Noether Howrefuge
was given do you at
know?
Bryn Mawr, a women's
college in Pennsylvania.
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B. Circle the correct answer.

1. Emmy Noether:
A. is one of the most famous scientists who ever lived
B. overthrew all academic order
C. came up with the theory of relativity
D. figured out the math which supported the theory of relativity

2. Emmy Noether was the first woman to:


A. work for free
B. give the keynote speech at the International Congress of
Mathematicians
C. lose her job in Germany
D. none of the above

3. Noether's math showed that energy is always conserved, though the conservation

may require a sufficiently large expanse of space to actually work out. True /False

4. Noether is best known for her theory that:'


A. that every symmetry has an associated conservation law, and
vice versa
B. Energy is only conserved across massive expanses of space.

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