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Uncommon card · Science
Ernest Walton, an Uncommon card
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish experimental physicist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Ernest Walton quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ernest Walton card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He then spent the ______ of his career in Ireland, after returning from England in 1934.
Answer
majority. He then spent the majority of his career in Ireland, after returning from England in 1934. From the Ernest Walton article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Model aircraft. Model aircraft 75 · Airborne transmission 70 · Ernest Walton 66 · Coma Cluster 62 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 shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles." According to their Nobel Prize speech: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control." Walton was a key member of the nuclear physics faculty at the University of…
- He then spent the majority of his career in Ireland, after returning from England in 1934.
- He remained active as a member of the teaching faculty at Trinity College Dublin, where he served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy from 1946 until his retirement in 1974, after which he continued to be associated with the physics department at the college.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ernest Walton article was read about 21,000 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 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Ernest Walton
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ernest Walton (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
