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Jim Peebles, an Uncommon card
Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who gained the Albert Einstein Professorship in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Jim Peebles quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jim Peebles card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for his ______ discoveries in physical cosmology.
Answer
theoretical. Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology. From the Jim Peebles article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
John McDowell. John McDowell 73 · Jim Peebles 69 · Walter Kohn 66 · Thomas Gresham 62 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 widely regarded as one of the world's leading theoretical cosmologists in the period since 1970, with major theoretical contributions to primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, and structure formation.
- Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
- He shared the prize with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jim Peebles article was read about 18,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Jim Peebles
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jim Peebles (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Juan Diego Soler, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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