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Baruch Samuel Blumberg, a Common card
Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Baruch Samuel Blumberg quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Baruch Samuel Blumberg card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was president of the ______ Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.
Answer
American. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death. From the Baruch Samuel Blumberg article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Johann Friedrich Herbart. Johann Friedrich Herbart 73 · Baruch Samuel Blumberg 69 · Joseph Liouville 65 · Actaea 61 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.
- Blumberg and Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize for discovering "new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." Blumberg identified the hepatitis B virus, and later developed its diagnostic test and vaccine.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Baruch Samuel Blumberg 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 69 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Baruch Samuel Blumberg (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tom Trower (NASA), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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