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Leonard Susskind, an Uncommon card
Leonard Susskind is an American theoretical physicist, professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Leonard Susskind quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Leonard Susskind card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Susskind is widely regarded as one of the ______ of string theory.
Answer
fathers. Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. From the Leonard Susskind article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Basel problem. Basel problem 75 · Reductio ad absurdum 72 · Leonard Susskind 69 · Malvaceae 65 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.
- His research interests are string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology.
- He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
- Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Leonard Susskind 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 69 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Leonard Susskind
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- MalvaceaeUncommon · Nature · ATK 65 DEF 64
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- Ron CarterUncommon · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 60
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Leonard Susskind (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Acmedogs, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
