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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, an Uncommon card
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 61,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She determined that stars were composed primarily of ______ and helium in her 1925 doctoral thesis.
Answer
hydrogen. She determined that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium in her 1925 doctoral thesis. From the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Physical cosmology. Physical cosmology 82 · Cosmic dust 79 · Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 76 · Aromatic compound 73 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics.
- She determined that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium in her 1925 doctoral thesis.
- Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected by leading astrophysicists, including Henry Norris Russell, because it contradicted the science of the time, which held that no significant elemental differences distinguished the Sun and Earth.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin article was read about 61,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Smithsonian Institution/Science Service, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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