Did Marie Curie do crossword puzzles? Did she have the time?
Here's one for science students and puzzle fans.
THE ATOMIC PIONEERS
Crossword Puzzle
Across
1. Blue light in Marie Curie's bedroom.
5. Wound from radiation exposure.
8. Postal code for Utah
9. Out from
11. Chemical symbol for Polonium
12. Forward __ __.
13. Maria Goeppart-Mayer, author of shell _______ of nucleus.
16. Initials of lawyer Melvin Beli
17. Medical corporation (abbreviation)
18. She discovered element Francium
21. Room (abbreviation)
22. Address on the WWW
23. Radioactive ore purified by Marie Curie.
26. Sharp pain in the leg
27. Do-re- __ __
29. Cancer clinic in midwest.
31. Chemical symbol for Argon
33. Atomic nucleus is extremely _______.
35. A noble gas (abbreviation)
38. Leukemia, cancer of the _______.
40. He said electrons move in orbitals like planets.
41. Collaborator with Marie Curie.
Down
1. Competitor with Marie Curie, _______ford.
2. Source of all radioactivity (singular)
3. You are (singular)
4. Furniture: Danish ________
6. Revolutions-per-minute
7. Curie family won 5 of these prizes
10. He built first reactor in football field.
15. French for "the"
19. Tasty sound
20. This radiation killed Irene Curie
23. United Transportation Assn. (abbreviation)
24. Energy released from split atoms
25. Energized electrons jump ___ to higher state.
26. T-shirt size (abbrev.)
27. Creator of quanta theory of atoms, _____ Planck.
28. Won Nobel for artificial radioactivity
30. Palestinian Institute (abbreviation)
32. Atom's shape
34. Mts.(singular) where Einstein & Curie hiked together .
35. Gay military leader, Lawrence of England (abbrev.)
37. Chemical formula for hydroxide; postal code for Ohio
39. Street name abbreviation