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  1. 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.
  2. 5. _______________ (last name) discovered the x-ray.
  3. 6. Marie Curie received a Nobel Prize for her work with this
  4. 7. Georgy Flerov was a s___________ physicist.
  5. 8. The name of Hassium is derived from the German state of ___________ where Hassium was first made/synthesized.
  6. 11. This is the place in Tennessee where E. Lawrence and the rest of the scientists on the Manhattan Project had success in designing the atomic bomb. (2 words separated by a space)
  7. 14. the ACTUAL discoverer of radioactivity
  8. 17. _____________ 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.
  9. 20. Nobel and his father developed methods to produce nitroglycerin in large quantities for use in c________________.
  10. 22. Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues first discovered/MADE the element _______________.
  11. 23. Meitner was the first person to realize that Einstein's idea of making mass into __________ could be used in fission
  12. 24. Enrico Fermi helped make the first controlled n____________ r______________ (space between words)
  13. 25. Enrico Fermi's nickname (two words with a space between)
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  1. 1. Mendeleev wanted to bring order to the elements which led to the discovery of the _________ __________. (2 words separated by a space)
  2. 2. Mendeleev's 1st book title
  3. 4. Curie actively promoted the use of the element _________ to decrease pain/suffering
  4. 9. Lise Meitner was exiled to ________ which is why some people didn't know of her contributions to science
  5. 10. 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.
  6. 12. 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.
  7. 13. Dynamite is a stabilized form of n______________ and was invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867.
  8. 15. Meitner and her nephew used the idea of Neils Bohr's ____________ d__________ (2 words separated by a space) to explain nuclear behavior
  9. 16. Meitner's nephew; also a famous scientist
  10. 18. At Hanford, Fermi inserted the first _______ fuel slug into the B Reactor (an element)
  11. 19. Glenn Seaborg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the t____________________ elements.
  12. 21. Lise Meitner worked with this famous scientist (last name only; starts with "P")