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Ralph Alpher, a Common card

Ralph Asher Alpher was an American cosmologist, who carried out pioneering work in the early 1950s on the Big Bang model, including Big Bang nucleosynthesis and predictions of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

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Rarity
Common
Domain
Science
ATK
66
DEF
38
Power
104
Wikipedia reads a year
6,500

Power 104 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.

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Ralph Alpher quiz: 3 questions

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

  1. In which decade?

    Ralph Asher Alpher was an American cosmologist, who carried out pioneering work in the early ____s on the Big Bang model, including Big Bang nucleosynthesis and predictions of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

    Answer

    1950s. Ralph Asher Alpher was an American cosmologist, who carried out pioneering work in the early 1950s on the Big Bang model, including Big Bang nucleosynthesis and predictions of the cosmic microwave background radiation. From the Ralph Alpher article on Wikipedia.

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

    Answer

    Ralph Alpher. Ralph Alpher 66 · Alosetron 62 · Coastal geography 58 · List of ambassadors of South Africa to the United States 53 ATK in WikiCards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

Why it is Common

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ralph Alpher article was read about 6,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.

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Text : Wikipedia, Ralph Alpher (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Credit: Alpher Papers., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

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