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