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Leo Szilard, an Uncommon card
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist, and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 176 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Leo Szilard quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Leo Szilard card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He conceived the ______ chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936.
Answer
nuclear. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936. From the Leo Szilard article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Children's literature. Children's literature 92 · Lanthanide 86 · Culture of Japan 82 · Leo Szilard 79 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.
- He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936.
- In late 1939 he wrote the Einstein–Szilard letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, and then in 1945 wrote the Szilard petition asking president Harry S. Truman to demonstrate the bomb without dropping it on civilians.
- According to György Marx, he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as The Martians.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Leo Szilard article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Leo Szilard
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Leo Szilard (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : unknown photographer Furfur, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
