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Uncommon card · Science
Barry Marshall, an Uncommon card
Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 67,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Barry Marshall quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Barry Marshall card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This discovery has allowed for a ______ in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer.
Answer
breakthrough. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer. From the Barry Marshall article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Shortest path problem. Shortest path problem 77 · Barry Marshall 68 · Maser 65 · Cape 58 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid.
- This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer.
- He is a prominent example, in the tradition of John Scott Haldane, JBS Haldane and, much later, Jonas Salk, of testing a medical hypothesis by self-administration.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Barry Marshall article was read about 67,000 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 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Barry Marshall
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Barry Marshall (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : WikiEdtingProfile2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
