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Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, an Uncommon card
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was an Austro-Hungarian, and later American electrical engineer and physicist who has been credited with the first patent on the field-effect transistor in 1925.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 89
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 89 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was never able to build a ______ practical semiconductor device based on his concept.
Answer
working. He was never able to build a working practical semiconductor device based on his concept. From the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was an Austro-Hungarian, and later American electrical engineer and physicist who has been credited with the first patent on the field-effect transistor in ____.
Answer
1920s. Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was an Austro-Hungarian, and later American electrical engineer and physicist who has been credited with the first patent on the field-effect transistor in 1925. From the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Alexander Oparin. Alexander Oparin 61 · Julius Edgar Lilienfeld 57 · The Queen of Hearts 53 · Ferrocyanide 50 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was never able to build a working practical semiconductor device based on his concept.
- Additionally, because he didn't publish articles in learned journals and since high-purity semiconductor materials were not available to him, his FET patent never achieved fame, causing confusion for later inventors.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Julius Edgar Lilienfeld article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : unknown, US government document, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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