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Alfred Werner, a Common card
Alfred Werner was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 33
- Power
- 87
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 87 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Alfred Werner quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alfred Werner card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Werner developed the basis for modern ______ chemistry.
Answer
coordination. Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry. From the Alfred Werner article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ____ for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes.
Answer
1910s. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes. From the Alfred Werner article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kenneth Frampton. Kenneth Frampton 60 · Italian frigate Alpino 57 · Alfred Werner 54 · Joe Armstrong 51 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 won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes.
- Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry.
- He was the first inorganic chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and the only one prior to 1973.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alfred Werner article was read about 10,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 33: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alfred Werner (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ETH Zürich, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
