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Nicholas Metropolis, a Common card
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was a Greek-American physicist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Nicholas Metropolis quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nicholas Metropolis card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Metropolis received his BSc and PhD in physics at the ______ of Chicago.
Answer
University. Metropolis received his BSc and PhD in physics at the University of Chicago. From the Nicholas Metropolis article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He arrived in Los Alamos in April ____, as a member of the original staff of fifty scientists.
Answer
1940s. He arrived in Los Alamos in April 1943, as a member of the original staff of fifty scientists. From the Nicholas Metropolis article on Wikipedia.
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.
- Metropolis received his BSc and PhD in physics at the University of Chicago.
- Shortly afterwards, Robert Oppenheimer recruited him from Chicago, where he was collaborating with Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller on the first nuclear reactors, to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- He arrived in Los Alamos in April 1943, as a member of the original staff of fifty scientists.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nicholas Metropolis article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Nicholas Metropolis
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- Joseph GliddenCommon · Society · ATK 59 DEF 47
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- Mikheil GelovaniCommon · History · ATK 62 DEF 44
- Osamu ShimomuraCommon · Science · ATK 60 DEF 46
- PanjinCommon · Society · ATK 62 DEF 44
- PorlockCommon · Society · ATK 58 DEF 48
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Nicholas Metropolis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nicholas_Metropolis.jpeg : Los Alamos National Laboratory derivative work: Avi ( talk ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
