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Uncommon card · History
Andrew Huxley, an Uncommon card
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was an English physiologist and biophysicist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 25,000
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Andrew Huxley quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Andrew Huxley card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was born into the ______ Huxley family.
Answer
prominent. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. From the Andrew Huxley article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in ____.
Answer
1960s. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. From the Andrew Huxley article on Wikipedia.
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 born into the prominent Huxley family.
- After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, on a scholarship, after which he joined Alan Hodgkin to study nerve impulses.
- Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Andrew Huxley article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Andrew Huxley
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Andrew Huxley (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
