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Thanu Padmanabhan, a Common card
Thanu Padmanabhan was an Indian theoretical physicist and cosmologist whose research spanned a wide variety of topics in gravitation, structure formation in the universe and quantum gravity.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 52
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,500
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Thanu Padmanabhan quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Thanu Padmanabhan card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He published nearly 300 papers and reviews in ______ journals and ten books in these areas.
Answer
international. He published nearly 300 papers and reviews in international journals and ten books in these areas. From the Thanu Padmanabhan article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Denis Kudla. Denis Kudla 75 · Thanu Padmanabhan 72 · Michelle Simmons 68 · Benjamin Silliman 65 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.
- He published nearly 300 papers and reviews in international journals and ten books in these areas.
- He made several contributions related to the analysis and modelling of dark energy in the universe and the interpretation of gravity as an emergent phenomenon.
- He was a distinguished professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Pune, India.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thanu Padmanabhan article was read about 9,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 52: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Thanu Padmanabhan
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Thanu Padmanabhan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Scipop, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
