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Mark Oliphant, an Uncommon card
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and in the development of nuclear weapons.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 98
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 54,000
Power 178 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Mark Oliphant quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mark Oliphant card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
There, he discovered the ______ nuclei of helium-3 and of tritium.
Answer
respective. There, he discovered the respective nuclei of helium-3 and of tritium. From the Mark Oliphant article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Oliphant graduated from the University of Adelaide in ____.
Answer
1920s. Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Oliphant graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1922. From the Mark Oliphant article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Oliphant graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1922.
- He was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship in 1927 on the strength of the research he had done on mercury, and went to England where he studied under Sir Ernest Rutherford at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.
- There, he discovered the respective nuclei of helium-3 and of tritium.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Mark Oliphant (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
