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Stanford R. Ovshinsky, a Common card
Stanford Robert Ovshinsky was an American engineer, scientist and inventor who over a span of fifty years was granted well over 400 patents, mostly in the areas of energy and information.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,100
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Stanford R. Ovshinsky quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Stanford R. Ovshinsky card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Many of his ______ have had wide-ranging applications.
Answer
inventions. Many of his inventions have had wide-ranging applications. From the Stanford R. Ovshinsky article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Antonio García. Antonio García 79 · Paul Otlet 74 · Stanford R. Ovshinsky 69 · Vladimir Prelog 64 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Vladimir Prelog. Vladimir Prelog 13,000 · Stanford R. Ovshinsky 8,100 · Auguste Forel 5,900 · Lynden Archer 1,300 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- Many of his inventions have had wide-ranging applications.
- Among the most prominent are: the nickel-metal hydride battery, which has been widely used in laptop computers, digital cameras, cell phones, and electric and hybrid cars, flexible thin-film solar energy laminates and panels, flat panel liquid crystal displays, rewritable CD and DVD discs, hydrogen fuel cells, and nonvolatile phase-change memory.
- Ovshinsky opened the scientific field of amorphous and disordered materials in the course of his research in the 1940s and 50s in neurophysiology, neural disease, the nature of intelligence in mammals and machines, and cybernetics.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Stanford R. Ovshinsky article was read about 8,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
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- Antonio GarcíaCommon · Society · ATK 79 DEF 50
- Paul OtletCommon · Science · ATK 74 DEF 55
- BacatáCommon · Society · ATK 69 DEF 60
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Text : Wikipedia, Stanford R. Ovshinsky (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photographed by Glenn Triest, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
