La chasseuse de la particule (The Particle Hunter)
Duolingo French Podcast
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4.6 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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After earning a PhD in nuclear physics in Europe, Dr. Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli returned to her native Morocco to teach and raise a family. But when she learned her former colleagues were embarking on the scientific quest of the century, she hatched a plan to join them—and give her country the scientific credit it deserved.
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| 0:00.0 | In the summer of 1982, Raja, Chercaouille, El Morsley was living in France. |
| 0:07.0 | She was 28 years old, had just finished a doctorate in nuclear physics, and had been offered |
| 0:13.2 | a job in a lab in Grenoble. |
| 0:16.4 | She wanted to take the job, but her father said no. |
| 0:21.0 | Come back home to Morocco. |
| 0:23.0 | My father said no, you can't do that. |
| 0:28.0 | You have to go in to your country. |
| 0:31.0 | We don't stay in the foreign after these studies. |
| 0:35.0 | We have to bring what we learned to his country. |
| 0:40.0 | Morocco needs you, he said, with a certain patriotism that Raja didn't fully share at the time. |
| 0:47.0 | I was young. |
| 0:50.0 | I didn't really understand patriotism. |
| 0:54.0 | I said that the country where we work is not important. |
| 1:00.0 | My father replied, no, your country is here. |
| 1:05.0 | My father was very patriotic. |
| 1:10.0 | Raja ended up going back to Morocco, and her decision would change Morocco's place in the |
| 1:15.0 | scientific world. |
| 1:18.0 | I participated in the discovery of the century, and Morocco too. |
| 1:24.0 | It's the thing that makes me the proudest. |
| 1:33.0 | Bienvenue and welcome to the DualLingo French podcast. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm your host, Gophain Poutoubele. |
| 1:39.0 | Every episode we bring you fascinating true stories to help you improve your French |
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