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Donna Strickland, an Uncommon card
Donna Theo Strickland is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 42,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Donna Strickland quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Donna Strickland card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She is a professor at the ______ of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
Answer
University. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. From the Donna Strickland article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in ____, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification.
Answer
2010s. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. From the Donna Strickland article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Colin Cowdrey. Colin Cowdrey 83 · Early modern warfare 79 · Donna Strickland 71 · Asyut 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.
- She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification.
- She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
- Strickland served as fellow, vice president, and president of Optica, and is currently chair of its Presidential Advisory Committee.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Donna Strickland article was read about 42,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 64: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Donna Strickland
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Donna Strickland (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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