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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., a Common card
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 92
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 92 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This was the first indirect detection of ______ waves, later directly detected by Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss.
Answer
gravitational. This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss. From the Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He shared the ____ Nobel Prize in physics with Russell Alan Hulse "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".
Answer
1990s. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics with Russell Alan Hulse "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". From the Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics with Russell Alan Hulse "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".
- This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : 2008JosephTaylorWithMarietta.jpg : Betsythedevine Betsy Devine derivative work: Materialsc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
