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  1. 2. Meitner was the first person to realize that Einstein's idea of making mass into __________ could be used in fission
  2. 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.
  3. 4. Lise Meitner worked with this famous scientist (last name only; starts with "P")
  4. 6. This person was the co-discoverer of 10 of the synthetic elements
  5. 7. Meitner's nephew; also a famous scientist
  6. 8. The name of Hassium is derived from the German state of ___________ where Hassium was first made/synthesized.
  7. 10. 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)
  8. 11. Oganesson is named for the physicist __________ Oganessian.
  9. 14. Marie Curie received a Nobel Prize for her work with this
  10. 15. 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.
  11. 19. Georgy Flerov helped discover spontaneous __________.
  12. 20. Glenn Seaborg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the t____________________ elements.
  13. 24. Inventor of dynamite
  14. 26. Enrico Fermi helped make the first controlled n____________ r______________ (space between words)
  15. 27. Meitner and her nephew used the idea of Neils Bohr's ____________ d__________ (2 words separated by a space) to explain nuclear behavior
  16. 28. Curie actively promoted the use of the element _________ to decrease pain/suffering
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  1. 1. Enrico Fermi's nickname (two words with a space between)
  2. 5. Dynamite is a stabilized form of n______________ and was invented in 1867.
  3. 6. Lise Meitner was exiled to ________ which is why some people didn't know of her contributions to science
  4. 9. 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.
  5. 12. Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues first discovered/MADE the element _______________.
  6. 13. Georgy Flerov was a s___________ physicist.
  7. 16. _______________ (last name) discovered the x-ray. (be careful, this word has a "oe" in it...the internet shows an O with dots above it)
  8. 17. At Hanford, Fermi inserted the first _______ fuel slug into the B Reactor (an element)
  9. 18. One of the 2 elements Marie Curie co-founded
  10. 21. _____________ 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.
  11. 22. the ACTUAL discoverer of radioactivity
  12. 23. Mendeleev wanted to bring order to the elements which led to the discovery of the _________ l__________. (2 words separated by a space)
  13. 25. Glenn Seaborg also helped to develop the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium fuel for the __________ ___________. (2 words separated by a space)