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Klaus Fuchs, a Rare card
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist, atomic spy, and communist who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 360,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Klaus Fuchs quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Klaus Fuchs card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
After his conviction in ____, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom, then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader.
Answer
1950s. After his conviction in 1950, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom, then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader. From the Klaus Fuchs article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kingdom of Jerusalem. Kingdom of Jerusalem 88 · Shiva Ayyadurai 81 · Klaus Fuchs 78 · Nick Mason 73 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- While at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb.
- After his conviction in 1950, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom, then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader.
- The son of a Lutheran pastor, Fuchs attended the University of Leipzig, where his father was a professor of theology, and became involved in student politics, joining the student branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, an SPD-allied paramilitary organisation.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Klaus Fuchs article was read about 360,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Klaus Fuchs (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The National Archives UK, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
