My speciality. Овчинникова Т.Е - 6 стр.

When was Radiophysics and Electronics Department formed in OSU? Who was the
department formed by? What do the terms nanotechnology and nanometer mean?
Where is the professional activity of graduates directed to? Where are they
demanded?

      1.1.9 What do you think these sayings mean? Which ones do you agree
with? Why?

1. Business before pleasure. 2. Where there is a will there’s a way. 3. The devil finds
work for idle hands. 4. Make work like leisure.

        Use the expression to help you

In my opinion; nowadays; more over; People generally…; on the whole; I can’t
stand…; I’d quite like…

       1.1.10 Tell the class about your speciality using the information from the
text

       1.2 Part 2

       1.2.1 Read and translate the text. Make notes while reading:
         Things I knew…
         Things I don’t know…
         Things I did not understand…

                         From the history of Radiophysics
1939-1972. Rainmaking. Wartime work on radio wave propagation led to an
extended study by Dr E.G. Bowen of atmospheric behaviour and cloud physics. It
was suggested in the USA that if a seeding agent were intoduced into supercooled
clouds of water droplets, tiny ice crystals would be formed, collect water droplets and
fall from the cloud. Within a few weeks of the announcement, field experiments were
in progress. Australia quickly became a leader in cloud physics research and the
techniques of artifical stimulation of rainfall. Scientists from India, Pakistan, the
Philippines, Korea, Israel, Singapore, USA, Egypt, Malaya and Chile came to study
at the Laboratory or to use the Australian methods.
In October 1952 a rainmaking Dakota aircraft disappered in cloud off Cronulla.
Laboratory scientists R.S. Styles and F.W. Campbell and the whole R.A.A.F crew
lost their lives.
Australian silver iodide burners, used to seed clouds from aircraft, became well
known in many parts of the world.
In 1958 Radiophysics acquired two Cessna 310B aircraft for cloud seeding, hi 1965
these were replaced with one of the RAAF's DC3s which had been used previously.
"Cloud Physics" beame a separate division of CSIRO in 1972.