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Adam Riess, an Uncommon card
Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 25,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Adam Riess quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Adam Riess card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is known for his ______ in using supernovae as cosmological probes.
Answer
research. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. From the Adam Riess article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Current source. Current source 70 · Median strip 67 · Adam Riess 64 · Geely Xingrui 60 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes.
- Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
- Riess has been at the center of a growing scientific debate about the so-called “Hubble tension” , a discrepancy between measurements of the universe’s expansion rate using nearby supernovae, and measurements inferred from the cosmic microwave background radiation using the Standard Model of cosmology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Adam Riess article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Adam Riess (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
