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- 6. At Hanford, Fermi inserted the first _______ fuel slug into the B Reactor (an element)
- 7. Glenn Seaborg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the t____________________ elements.
- 9. Marie Curie received a Nobel Prize for her work with this
- 10. _______________ (last name) discovered the x-ray.
- 11. the ACTUAL discoverer of radioactivity
- 14. 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.
- 15. Mendeleev's 1st book title "The
- 19. Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues first discovered/MADE the element _______________.
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- 1. Dynamite is a stabilized form of n______________ and was invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867.
- 2. Georgy Flerov helped discover spontaneous __________.
- 3. Enrico Fermi helped make the first controlled n____________ r______________ (space between words)
- 4. 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)
- 5. Oganesson is named for the physicist __________ Oganessian.
- 8. _____________ 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.
- 12. The name of Hassium is derived from the German state of ___________ where Hassium was first made/synthesized.
- 13. Meitner's nephew; also a famous scientist
- 16. Curie actively promoted the use of the element _________ to decrease pain/suffering
- 17. Lise Meitner worked with this famous scientist (last name only; starts with "P")
- 18. One of the 2 elements Marie Curie co-discovered
