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Hans Geiger, an Uncommon card
Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm Geiger was a German experimental physicist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Hans Geiger quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hans Geiger card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was the brother of ______ and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.
Answer
meteorologist. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger. From the Hans Geiger article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Data communication. Data communication 65 · Granular convection 61 · Hans Geiger 58 · Hoist 55 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 is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
- He also performed the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment, which confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions.
- He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hans Geiger article was read about 30,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Hans Geiger
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Hans Geiger in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Granular convectionUncommon · Science · ATK 61 DEF 39
- Alexander BlokUncommon · Arts · ATK 62 DEF 38
- HoistUncommon · Science · ATK 55 DEF 45
- Irina KrushUncommon · Society · ATK 59 DEF 41
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hans Geiger (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
