Marie Curie
female scientists
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lise meitner
The Manhattan project
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the year Marie was born

1867

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denied to study in Marie Curies lab 

lise Meitner 

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second woman to win the Nobel prize in physics, after Marie Curie 

maria Goeppert-Mayer

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the year lise was born

1879

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the date the Manhattan Project started 

August 13, 1942

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who did Marie decline to study in her lab

Lise Meitner

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both the youngest and only woman to help build Chicago Pile-1 

leona woods

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arrived at Hanford almost two weeks before the first plutonium reactor started off

Enrico Fermi

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when was lise invited to work on the Manhattan project 

1942

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male scientist that helped with the project

Robert Oppenheimer

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The year Marie won the nobel prize

1903

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Nucular chemist known for work with radioisotopes 

Elizabeth Rona

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took a small amount of highly radioactive substance and carried it with them

pierre curie

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the name Lise was known by

Atomic Pioneer 

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how many people died in the manhattan project 

24 deaths 

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The husband of Marie 

Pieere Curie 

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The daughter of marie curie and laid the groundwork for the Manhattan project 

Joliot-Curie 

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died from erysipelas 

Elizabeth's father 

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what chemical did lise discover 

Uranium 

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Famous scientist included in the project 

Albert Einstein

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The man Marie shared the Nobel prize with 

Henri Becquerel

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physicist who studies the physics of neutrons and the detection and measurement of fast neutrons.

Elizabeth Graves

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instructed the army corps of engineers to begin constructing the factories to manufacture the materials for atomic bombs 

President Roosevelt

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why did lise leave Germany and then settle in Sweden 

She was Jewish 

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what year did Germany surrender, ending the war 

1945

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