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Uncommon card · Science
Arthur Ashkin, an Uncommon card
Arthur Ashkin was an American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Labs.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 116
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 116 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Arthur Ashkin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Arthur Ashkin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He ______ in Rumson, New Jersey.
Answer
resided. He resided in Rumson, New Jersey. From the Arthur Ashkin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Social theory. Social theory 73 · Arthur Ashkin 67 · Justinas Pranaitis 63 · Irregular galaxy 59 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Oil drop experiment. Oil drop experiment 49,000 · Irregular galaxy 33,000 · Arthur Ashkin 18,000 · Justinas Pranaitis 11,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- Ashkin has been considered by many as the father of optical tweezers, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 at age 96, becoming the oldest Nobel laureate until 2019 when John B. Goodenough was awarded at 97.
- He resided in Rumson, New Jersey.
- Ashkin started his work on manipulation of microparticles with laser light in the late 1960s which resulted in the invention of optical tweezers in 1986.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Arthur Ashkin article was read about 18,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Arthur Ashkin
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Arthur Ashkin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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