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Gerhard Herzberg, a Common card
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals".
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,700
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Gerhard Herzberg quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gerhard Herzberg card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular ______.
Answer
spectroscopy. Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy. From the Gerhard Herzberg article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Stuart Schreiber. Stuart Schreiber 71 · Mattia Preti 68 · Gerhard Herzberg 63 · Salvador de Madariaga 58 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.
- Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy.
- He is well known for using these techniques that determine the structures of diatomic and polyatomic molecules, including free radicals which are difficult to investigate in any other way, and for the chemical analysis of astronomical objects.
- Herzberg served as Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada from 1973 to 1980.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gerhard Herzberg article was read about 9,700 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 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Gerhard Herzberg
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Text : Wikipedia, Gerhard Herzberg (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : GFHund, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
