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Ahmed Zewail, an Uncommon card
Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 51,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Ahmed Zewail quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ahmed Zewail card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
He was awarded the ____ Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, and the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Answer
1990s. He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, and the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. From the Ahmed Zewail article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Chinese philosophy. Chinese philosophy 78 · Impact crater 75 · Ahmed Zewail 71 · Anaximenes of Miletus 68 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, and the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- He was a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he was the first Caltech faculty member to be named the Linus Pauling Chair of Chemical Physics and was the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ahmed Zewail article was read about 51,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ahmed Zewail (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Douglas A. Lockard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
