I was born in Zamora: Laura Iglesias Romero

LAURA IGLESIAS ROMERO

1. FILL THE GAPS:

She was a __________. She studied the movement of _____, and nowadays the science award from Castilla y León has her ______. She was Laura Iglesias Romero.

This is RADIO 6, from ZAMORA in SPAIN. This is “I WAS BORN IN ZAMORA”.

Laura Iglesias Romero was _______ in Zamora, in the city of Benavente in 1928.

She said she hadn´t got a good _________, but nevertheless, she studied at the ___________ in Madrid, where she graded with distinction and she became a chemist.

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2. COMPLETE THE WORDS:

Science was her passion and she started to w_____ as a scientific researcher at the CSIC in Spain. In 1956 she received a grant to st______ at the Princeton U________ in New Jersey w_______ she worked at the Physics faculty. Following this, she mo_____ to Washington in order to work during the 1950s. Her f______ idea was to work there for 6 months, but in the end she was working there two y______.

3. WHAT IS MISSING:

She said that there were very good _________ in Spain, but some of them had to move abroad to _______. And after those years she returned to Spain to _______ spectra of transition metal elements, which is __________ in the field of astrophysics.

In those days, most of her colleagues were men, _____ working hard she became a brilliant scientist ______ after a few years she received the award “González Martí” from the Spanish Science Real Academy _________ her work about magneisum.

4. WHAT A MESS!:

After a whole (elfi) ______ dedicated to the science, nowadays Laura Iglesias Romero is known because she studied the movement of stars. The same (assrt) _______ she looked at when she was a (dihcl) ________ and she played and dreamed in the (eresstt) _______ of Benavente.

She wrote many different informative articles to the (sebt) ______ Science Magazines, such as  “The American Chemical Society” (ro) ____ “Journal of Physical and Chemical”

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The scientist Laura Iglesias Romero.

Our best wishes to your best dreams from Radio 6, from Zamora.

The Science Communication award Laura Iglesias Romero.

This was our figure today. She was born in Zamora. And she is part of our history.

In 2008, the scientific communication award from Castilla y León, which is given in The Science Museum in Valladolid took her name,