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Gérard Mourou, a Common card
Gérard Albert Mourou is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, along with Donna Strickland, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification, a technique later used to create ultrashort-pulse, very high-intensity laser pulses.
- In 1994, Mourou and his team at the University of Michigan discovered that the balance between the self-focusing refraction and self-attenuating diffraction by ionization and rarefaction of a laser beam of terawatt intensities in the atmosphere creates "filaments" that act as waveguides for the beam, thus preventing divergence.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gérard Mourou article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gérard Mourou (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : École polytechnique, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.


