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Kenichi Fukui, a Common card
Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,700
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Kenichi Fukui quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Kenichi Fukui card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the ____ prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions.
Answer
1980s. He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the 1981 prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions. From the Kenichi Fukui article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kenichi Fukui. Kenichi Fukui 63 · Robert Maillart 60 · Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital 56 · Autobiography of Harkhuf 53 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the 1981 prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions.
- Fukui's prize-winning work focused on the role of frontier orbitals in chemical reactions: specifically that molecules share loosely bonded electrons which occupy the frontier orbitals, that is, the Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital and the Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kenichi Fukui article was read about 6,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kenichi Fukui (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nobel Foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

