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Walter Kohn, an Uncommon card
Walter Kohn was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Walter Kohn quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Walter Kohn card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in ______ in 1998.
Answer
Chemistry. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. From the Walter Kohn article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2026 Washington wildfires. 2026 Washington wildfires 75 · Jim Peebles 69 · Walter Kohn 66 · Thomas Gresham 62 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 was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.
- The award recognized their contributions to understanding the electronic properties of materials.
- In particular, Kohn played the leading role in the development of density functional theory, which made it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.
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 Kohn 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 66 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Walter Kohn
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Walter Kohn (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Markus Pössel (User name: Mapos), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
