VOA慢速英语 女性在科学界面临的问题

　　VOICE TWO:

　　Last year, a woman won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Françoise Barre-Sinoussi was honored with another scientist for research leading to the discovery of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. She works at the Institute Pasteur in Paris, France. She supports many young scientists, including those from poor countries. Doctor Barre-Sinoussi said recently that "there is always hope in life because there is always hope in science."

　　VOICE ONE:

　　Last month, Rita Levi-Montalcini became the first Nobel Prize Laureate to reach the age of one hundred. But when she was a girl, she had to persuade her father to let her study science. Then she had to do her research secretly in her home because she was Jewish. Jews were not permitted to be scientists during the nineteen thirties in Italy.

　　After World War Two, she worked for many years in the United States. In nineteen eighty-six, Rita Levi-Montalcini shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering processes that control the growth of cells and organs.