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Across
  1. 1. Glenn Seaborg also helped to develop the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium fuel for the __________ ___________. (2 words separated by a space)
  2. 6. This is the place in Tennessee where E. Lawrence and the rest of the scientists on the Manhattan Project succeeded in designing the atomic bomb. (2 words separated by a space)
  3. 7. The name of Hassium is derived from the German state of ___________ where Hassium was first made/synthesized.
  4. 8. Georgy Flerov helped discover spontaneous __________.
  5. 9. Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues first discovered/MADE the element _______________.
  6. 12. the ACTUAL discoverer of radioactivity
  7. 15. One of the 2 elements Marie Curie co-founded
  8. 18. Meitner was the first person to realize that Einstein's idea of making mass into __________ could be used in fission
  9. 20. Enrico Fermi helped make the first controlled n____________ r______________ (space between words)
  10. 22. Curie actively promoted the use of the element _________ to decrease pain/suffering
  11. 24. Dynamite is a stabilized form of n______________ and was invented in 1867.
  12. 26. Glenn Seaborg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the t____________________ elements.
Down
  1. 1. Meitner's nephew; also a famous scientist
  2. 2. Enrico Fermi's nickname (two words with a space between)
  3. 3. To create his first table, Mendeleev wrote the p_____________ of the different elements on different cards so he could compare them and move the cards around in an attempt to find order among them.
  4. 4. _______________ (last name) discovered the x-ray. (be careful, this word has a "oe" in it...the internet shows an O with dots above it)
  5. 5. Mendeleev wanted to bring order to the elements which led to the discovery of the _________ l__________. (2 words separated by a space)
  6. 10. Inventor of dynamite
  7. 11. Marie Curie received a Nobel Prize for her work with this
  8. 13. One of the major problems that E. Lawrence and the rest of the scientists on the Manhattan Project had to solve was the _____________ of the 2 forms of Uranium.
  9. 14. Lise Meitner was exiled to ________ which is why some people didn't know of her contributions to science
  10. 15. Lise Meitner worked with this famous scientist (last name only; starts with "P")
  11. 16. At Hanford, Fermi inserted the first _______ fuel slug into the B Reactor (an element)
  12. 17. In 1921, President _____________ on behalf of the women of America, presented Marie Curie with one gram of one of the elements that she co-discovered in recognition of her service to science.
  13. 19. Oganesson is named for the physicist __________ Oganessian.
  14. 21. Meitner and her nephew used the idea of Neils Bohr's ____________ d__________ (2 words separated by a space) to explain nuclear behavior
  15. 23. Georgy Flerov was a s___________ physicist.
  16. 25. _____________ is a SUPERHEAVY, synthetically made element with a half-life of less than a thousandth of a second, making it difficult to discover or put into practical use.