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Rudolf Peierls, an Uncommon card
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear weapon programme, as well as the subsequent Manhattan Project, the combined Allied nuclear bomb programme.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Power 162 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Rudolf Peierls quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Rudolf Peierls card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
After receiving his DPhil from Leipzig University in 1929, he became an ______ to Pauli at ETH Zurich.
Answer
assistant. After receiving his DPhil from Leipzig University in 1929, he became an assistant to Pauli at ETH Zurich. From the Rudolf Peierls article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
His ____ obituary in Physics Today described him as "a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into world affairs".
Answer
1990s. His 1996 obituary in Physics Today described him as "a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into world affairs". From the Rudolf Peierls article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Jordan. History of Jordan 87 · History of weapons 81 · History of Cornwall 77 · Rudolf Peierls 74 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- His 1996 obituary in Physics Today described him as "a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into world affairs".
- Peierls studied physics at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under Arnold Sommerfeld, Leipzig University under Werner Heisenberg, and ETH Zurich under Wolfgang Pauli.
- After receiving his DPhil from Leipzig University in 1929, he became an assistant to Pauli at ETH Zurich.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Rudolf Peierls article was read about 29,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Rudolf Peierls (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : GFHund, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
