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Uncommon card · Science
Didier Queloz, an Uncommon card
Didier Patrick Queloz is a Swiss astronomer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 116
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 116 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Didier Queloz quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Didier Queloz card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
For this ______, he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with Mayor and Jim Peebles.
Answer
discovery. For this discovery, he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with Mayor and Jim Peebles. From the Didier Queloz article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Together with Michel Mayor in ____, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi.
Answer
1990s. Together with Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. From the Didier Queloz article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Energy conversion efficiency. Energy conversion efficiency 70 · Didier Queloz 66 · Groundwater recharge 63 · Hauyne 58 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.
- He is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor of physics at ETH Zurich.
- Together with Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi.
- For this discovery, he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with Mayor and Jim Peebles.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Didier Queloz 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 66 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Didier Queloz
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Didier Queloz (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Astrofisch66, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
