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B. Jayant Baliga, a Common card
Bantval Jayant Baliga is an Indian electrical engineer best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, and particularly the invention of practical implementations of the insulated gate bipolar transistor.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,500
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In 1993, Baliga was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to power semiconductor devices leading to the advent of smart power technology, and in 2024, won the Finnish Millennium Technology Prize for his invention of the IGBT.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The B. Jayant Baliga article was read about 7,500 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 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, B. Jayant Baliga (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NC State ECE Department, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
