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Heinrich Rohrer, a Common card
Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 29
- Power
- 81
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,600
Power 81 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Heinrich Rohrer quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Heinrich Rohrer card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The other half of the Prize was ______ to Ernst Ruska.
Answer
awarded. The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. From the Heinrich Rohrer article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the ____ Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope.
Answer
1980s. Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope. From the Heinrich Rohrer article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska.
- The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms. Rohrer in his memory.
- The medal is not to be confused with the Heinrich Rohrer Award presented at the Nano Seoul 2020 conference.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Heinrich Rohrer article was read about 5,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 52 and blocks with 29: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Heinrich Rohrer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NIMSoffice, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

