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Maria Goeppert Mayer, an Uncommon card
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 54,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Maria Goeppert Mayer quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Maria Goeppert Mayer card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 1986, the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was ______ in her honor.
Answer
established. In 1986, the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor. From the Maria Goeppert Mayer article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the ____ Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.
Answer
1960s. Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. From the Maria Goeppert Mayer article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Data and information visualization. Data and information visualization 83 · Sense of smell 79 · Tooth 75 · Maria Goeppert Mayer 72 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and Jensen "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." She was the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, the first being Marie Curie in 1903.
- In 1986, the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor.
- A graduate of the University of Göttingen, Goeppert Mayer wrote her doctoral thesis on the theory of possible two-photon absorption by atoms.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Maria Goeppert Mayer article was read about 54,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Maria Goeppert Mayer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
