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George Smoot, an Uncommon card
George Fitzgerald Smoot III was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 66,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
George Smoot quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the George Smoot card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This work helped further the Big Bang theory of the ______ using the Cosmic Background Explorer.
Answer
universe. This work helped further the Big Bang theory of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer. From the George Smoot article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He shared the ____ Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
Answer
2000s. He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation". From the George Smoot article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
- This work helped further the Big Bang theory of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer.
- According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." In 2007, Smoot donated $500,000 to fund the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, and an additional amount from his Nobel Prize money, less travel costs, to the East Bay Community Foundation, a charity.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The George Smoot article was read about 66,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, George Smoot (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nomo michael hoefner http://www.zwo5.de, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
