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Walter Schottky, a Common card
Walter Schottky was a German physicist and electrical engineer who played a major early role in developing the theory of thermionic emission, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915, co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Erwin Gerlach in 1924, and later made many significant…
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 89
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,700
Power 89 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The Schottky effect, the Schottky diode, the Schottky vacancies, the Schottky anomaly, and the Mott–Schottky equation are named after him.
- He conducted research on electrical noise mechanisms, space charge, especially in electron tubes, and the barrier layer in semiconductors, which were important for the development of copper oxide rectifiers and transistors.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Walter Schottky article was read about 7,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Walter Schottky
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Walter Schottky (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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