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Walter Brattain, an Uncommon card
Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 23,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Walter Brattain quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Walter Brattain card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Brattain devoted much of his life to ______ on surface states.
Answer
research. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states. From the Walter Brattain article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist who shared the ____ Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor.
Answer
1950s. Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. From the Walter Brattain article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Walter Brattain article was read about 23,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Walter Brattain (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
