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Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an Uncommon card
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist and radio astronomer who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the first known pulsar.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 168 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jocelyn Bell Burnell card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She was Chancellor of the ______ of Dundee from 2018 to 2023.
Answer
University. She was Chancellor of the University of Dundee from 2018 to 2023. From the Jocelyn Bell Burnell article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist and radio astronomer who, while conducting research for her doctorate in ____, discovered the first known pulsar.
Answer
1960s. Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist and radio astronomer who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the first known pulsar. From the Jocelyn Bell Burnell article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Brahmic scripts. Brahmic scripts 89 · Paris Peace Conference 85 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell 79 · Nanda Empire 75 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This discovery was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, though she was not among its recipients.
- Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004, president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and interim president of the Institute following the death of her successor, Marshall Stoneham, in early 2011.
- She was Chancellor of the University of Dundee from 2018 to 2023.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jocelyn Bell Burnell article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Jocelyn Bell Burnell (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Launch_of_IYA_2009,_Paris_-_Grygar,_Bell_Burnell.jpg : Astronomical Institute, Academy of , CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
