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Willard Boyle, a Common card
Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,200
Ranked #2,558 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Willard Boyle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Willard Boyle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the ____ Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device.
Answer
2000s. Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device. From the Willard Boyle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Numerical cognition. Numerical cognition 71 · Field line 64 · Willard Boyle 61 · First Lady of Cuba 57 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Miftah Ismail. Miftah Ismail 17,000 · Field line 11,000 · Willard Boyle 7,200 · William Jessop 5,000 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.
- As director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at Bellcomm, Boyle helped select lunar landing sites and provided support for the Apollo space program.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Willard Boyle article was read about 7,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Willard Boyle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Prolineserver ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
