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Arthur Eddington, an Uncommon card
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was an English astrophysicist and mathematician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 96,000
Power 142 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Arthur Eddington quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Arthur Eddington card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Around ____, he foreshadowed the discovery and mechanism of nuclear fusion processes in stars in his paper "The Internal Constitution of the Stars".
Answer
1920s. Around 1920, he foreshadowed the discovery and mechanism of nuclear fusion processes in stars in his paper "The Internal Constitution of the Stars". From the Arthur Eddington article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Arthur Eddington. Arthur Eddington 78 · Duncan Keith 74 · John Wyndham 71 · Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily 68 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.
- The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
- Around 1920, he foreshadowed the discovery and mechanism of nuclear fusion processes in stars in his paper "The Internal Constitution of the Stars".
- At that time, the source of stellar energy was a complete mystery, Eddington was the first to correctly speculate that the source was fusion of hydrogen into helium.
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 Eddington article was read about 96,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 64: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Arthur Eddington
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Arthur Eddington (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washi, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
