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