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Glenn T. Seaborg, an Uncommon card
Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 165
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 75,000
Power 165 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Glenn T. Seaborg quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Glenn T. Seaborg card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the ____ Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Answer
1950s. Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. From the Glenn T. Seaborg article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Militia. Militia 89 · Air supremacy 83 · Glenn T. Seaborg 80 · First Italo-Ethiopian War 75 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Militia. Militia 150,000 · First Italo-Ethiopian War 110,000 · Glenn T. Seaborg 75,000 · 2004 Haitian coup d'état 54,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His work in this area also led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements.
- Seaborg spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, serving as a professor, and, between 1958 and 1961, as the university's second chancellor.
- He advised ten US presidents, from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton, on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and the peaceful applications of nuclear science.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Glenn T. Seaborg article was read about 75,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Glenn T. Seaborg (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Atomic Energy Commission. (1946 - 01/19/1975), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
