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Karl Ziegler, a Common card
Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 127
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,300
Power 127 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Karl Ziegler quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Karl Ziegler card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ____, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers.
Answer
1960s. Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. From the Karl Ziegler article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2003 United Kingdom local elections. 2003 United Kingdom local elections 83 · Ferenc Dávid 70 · Karl Ziegler 66 · Battle of Bound Brook 62 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds [which]...led to new polymerization reactions and... paved the way for new and highly useful industrial processes".
- He is also known for his work involving free-radicals, many-membered rings, and organometallic compounds, as well as the development of Ziegler–Natta catalyst.
- One of many awards Ziegler received was the Werner von Siemens Ring in 1960 jointly with Otto Bayer and Walter Reppe, for expanding the scientific knowledge of and the technical development of new synthetic materials.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Karl Ziegler article was read about 7,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Karl Ziegler (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
