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António Egas Moniz, an Uncommon card
António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, known as simply Egas Moniz, was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 134
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 78,000
Power 134 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
António Egas Moniz quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the António Egas Moniz card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 1911, he became professor of ______ in Lisbon until his retirement in 1944.
Answer
neurology. In 1911, he became professor of neurology in Lisbon until his retirement in 1944. From the António Egas Moniz article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
François-René de Chateaubriand. François-René de Chateaubriand 74 · Karl Schwarzschild 71 · António Egas Moniz 68 · Junko Tabei 65 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery, having developed the surgical procedure leucotomy, better known today as lobotomy, for which he became the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize in 1949.
- He held academic positions, wrote many medical articles and also served in several legislative and diplomatic posts in the Portuguese government.
- In 1911, he became professor of neurology in Lisbon until his retirement in 1944.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The António Egas Moniz article was read about 78,000 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 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, António Egas Moniz (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
