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Serge Haroche, an Uncommon card
Serge Haroche is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems", a study of the particle of light, the photon.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Serge Haroche quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Serge Haroche card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This and his other works developed laser ______.
Answer
spectroscopy. This and his other works developed laser spectroscopy. From the Serge Haroche article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____ he defended his doctoral thesis in physics at the University of Paris VI: his research had been conducted under the direction of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
Answer
1970s. In 1971 he defended his doctoral thesis in physics at the University of Paris VI: his research had been conducted under the direction of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. From the Serge Haroche article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Stephen Timoshenko. Stephen Timoshenko 66 · Serge Haroche 63 · Edith M. Flanigen 60 · Étienne Lenoir 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.
- This and his other works developed laser spectroscopy.
- Since 2001, Haroche is a professor at the Collège de France and holds the chair of quantum physics and in 2022 he had the Fermi Chair of Physics at University of Rome La Sapienza.
- In 1971 he defended his doctoral thesis in physics at the University of Paris VI: his research had been conducted under the direction of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Serge Haroche article was read about 18,000 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 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Serge Haroche (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bengt Nyman, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
