Glenn T. Seaborg (discovered ten transuranium elements)
Example #109 of the Nobel Committee's misogny
Lise Meitner (received no Nobel Prize for her co-discovery of fission with Otto Hahn)
Healed by nuclear decay?
Marie Curie (studied radioactivity)
Artist Maya sculpts Indonesia's national dish out of Yttrium?
Johan Gadolin (discovered Yttrium)
Riddle
Element
Scientist
ea(sun)rth
Nicolaus Copernicus (proposed heliocentric solar system)
Little Boy's father
Enrico Fermi ('the father of the atomic bomb')
Professor Charles Xavier + a sunbeam
Wilhelm Roentgen (discovered X-rays)
Cyclotron 'of Arabia'
Ernest Lawrence (invented the cyclotron)
Table per second
Dmitri Mendeleev (Periodic Table)
electron 'cleans another dirty mouth'
Niels Bohr (Bohr model)
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Each riddle refers to the name, discovery, or legacy of a famous scientist. Use these clues to name the element. For example, "Jimmy, boy genius" --> Neutron --> James Chadwick, etc.
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