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Arnold Beckman, a Common card
Arnold Orville Beckman was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 98
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,400
Power 178 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Arnold Beckman quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Arnold Beckman card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He also developed the DU spectrophotometer, "probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of ______".
Answer
bioscience. He also developed the DU spectrophotometer, "probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of bioscience". From the Arnold Beckman article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Sustainable tourism. Sustainable tourism 23,000 · Greg Van Avermaet 16,000 · Arnold Beckman 9,400 · Port Republic, New Jersey 5,300 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, later considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology".
- He also developed the DU spectrophotometer, "probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of bioscience".
- Beckman funded the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the first silicon transistor company in California, thus giving rise to Silicon Valley.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Arnold Beckman article was read about 9,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 98: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Arnold Beckman (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.