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Uncommon card · Science
Arthur Kornberg, an Uncommon card
Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 31
- Power
- 93
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 93 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, an L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, and the National Medal of Science in 1979.
- In 1991, Kornberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and the Gairdner Foundation Award in 1995.
- Kornberg's primary research interests were in biochemistry, especially enzyme chemistry, deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis and studying the nucleic acids which control heredity in animals, plants, bacteria and viruses.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Arthur Kornberg article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 31: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Arthur Kornberg (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NIH History Office, https://www.flickr.com/people/124413887@N04 Restored by: Bammesk, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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