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Owen Richardson, a Common card

Sir Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law.

From the Wikipedia article

Rarity
Common
Domain
History
ATK
56
DEF
56
Power
112
Wikipedia reads a year
5,300

Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.

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Owen Richardson quiz: 3 questions

Three questions on the Owen Richardson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.

  1. In which decade?

    Sir Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who received the ____ Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law.

    Answer

    1920s. Sir Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law. From the Owen Richardson article on Wikipedia.

  2. Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?

    Answer

    1988 United States Senate election in Washington. 1988 United States Senate election in Washington 68 · Jiří Bělohlávek 65 · Leopold McClintock 62 · Owen Richardson 56 ATK in WikiCards.

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The facts on the card

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Why it is Common

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Owen Richardson article was read about 5,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Owen Richardson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

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