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Leon M. Lederman, an Uncommon card
Leon Max Lederman was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 139
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 139 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Leon M. Lederman quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Leon M. Lederman card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Lederman was director emeritus of Fermi National ______ Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
Answer
Accelerator. Lederman was director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. From the Leon M. Lederman article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Leon Max Lederman was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in ____, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos.
Answer
1980s. Leon Max Lederman was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos. From the Leon M. Lederman article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He also received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for research on quarks and leptons.
- Lederman was director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
- He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, where he was resident scholar emeritus from 2012 until his death in 2018.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Leon M. Lederman article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Leon M. Lederman (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ENERGY.GOV, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
