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Frederick Soddy, an Uncommon card
Frederick Soddy FRS was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Frederick Soddy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Frederick Soddy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He also proved the ______ of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.
Answer
existence. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. From the Frederick Soddy article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes".
Answer
1920s. In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes". From the Frederick Soddy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Supergiant. Supergiant 73 · Daredevils of Sassoun 70 · Frederick Soddy 67 · Agricultural machinery 63 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 also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.
- In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes".
- Soddy was a polymath who mastered chemistry, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, finance, and economics.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Frederick Soddy article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Frederick Soddy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
