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Chandra Wickramasinghe, a Common card
Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician and astronomer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 75
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Chandra Wickramasinghe quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chandra Wickramasinghe card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Andrey Korotayev. Andrey Korotayev 82 · Chandra Wickramasinghe 77 · Ethnic enclave 74 · Tornadoes of 1969 71 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Ethnic enclave. Ethnic enclave 35,000 · John Ray 20,000 · Chandra Wickramasinghe 11,000 · Andrey Korotayev 5,600 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.
- His research interests include the interstellar medium, infrared astronomy, light scattering theory, applications of solid-state physics to astronomy, the early Solar System, comets, astrochemistry, the origin of life and astrobiology.
- A student and collaborator of Fred Hoyle, the pair worked jointly for over 40 years as the most famous proponents of a non-mainstream version of panspermia, the proposal that life was seeded on Earth through space-based processes.
- In 1974 they proposed that some dust in interstellar space matched the spectral characteristics of freeze-dried bacteria, which was largely ignored at its publishing while the ubiquity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons explains the apparent match.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chandra Wickramasinghe article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 75: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Chandra Wickramasinghe
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Chandra Wickramasinghe (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Davidnoy, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
