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  1. 5. Mendeleev wanted to bring order to the elements which led to the discovery of the (2 words separated by a space)
  2. 6. Dynamite is a stabilized form of n______________ and was invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867.
  3. 7. Georgy Flerov was a s___________ physicist.
  4. 8. the ACTUAL discoverer of radioactivity (starts with b)
  5. 10. In 1921, President H_____________ 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. 11. N_____________ 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.
  7. 13. Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues first discovered/MADE the element p_______________.
  8. 16. Meitner's nephew; also a famous scientist (starts with f)
  9. 17. _______________ (last name) discovered the x-ray.
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  1. 1. Enrico Fermi helped make the first controlled n____________ r______________ (space between words)
  2. 2. Georgy Flerov helped discover spontaneous f__________.
  3. 3. Glenn Seaborg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the t____________________ elements.
  4. 4. Curie actively promoted the use of the element r_________ to decrease pain/suffering
  5. 9. Marie Curie received a Nobel Prize for her work with this (starts with r)
  6. 12. Oganesson is named for the physicist __________ Oganessian.
  7. 13. Lise Meitner worked with this famous scientist (last name only; starts with "P")
  8. 14. 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)
  9. 15. The name of Hassium is derived from the German state of ___________ where Hassium was first made/synthesized.