The Prequantum Era
Across
- 1. Discovered X-rays by accident when he noticed phosphorescent material glowing in his lab.
- 4. A type of radiation which has a high ionizing power but low penetrating power.
- 6. A type of radiation which has high penetrating power but lower ionizing power.
- 8. Device which fires electrons in a vacuum toward a phosphorescent screen to produce images.
- 11. Discovered two kinds of radiation which he named after the first letters of the Greek Alphabet.
- 12. Discovered a new type of radiation emitted by uranium salts, which he briefly named after himself.
Down
- 2. Device invented by Pierre Curie to measure the amount of charge in the air.
- 3. The phenomenon Becquerel was investigating when he discovered radiation.
- 5. The phenomenon where the spectral lines of an element splits when passed through a magnetic field.
- 7. Discovered the electron.
- 9. Discovered a third, extremely powerful type of radiation named "gamma rays" by Rutherford.
- 10. Discovered and named the phenomenon of radiation as well as two elements, radium and polonium.
- 11. Phenomenon discovered by Rutherford and Soddy when they discovered the element radon.