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Samuel Goudsmit, a Common card
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 109
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 109 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Samuel Goudsmit quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Samuel Goudsmit card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
I. I. Rabi remarked that the ______ of Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck from the Nobel Prize list "will always be a mystery to me."
Answer
omission. I. I. Rabi remarked that the omission of Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck from the Nobel Prize list "will always be a mystery to me." From the Samuel Goudsmit article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in ____.
Answer
1920s. Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925. From the Samuel Goudsmit article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Pedro Delgado. Pedro Delgado 66 · Samuel Goudsmit 63 · Roderick MacKinnon 60 · Multi-Purpose Logistics Module 56 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.
- Goudsmit, along with Uhlenbeck, was nominated numerous times for the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of electron spin but never won, despite strong support from nominators.
- I. I. Rabi remarked that the omission of Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck from the Nobel Prize list "will always be a mystery to me."
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Samuel Goudsmit article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Samuel Goudsmit
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Samuel Goudsmit (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Goudsmit Collection, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
