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Donald Lynden-Bell, a Common card
Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS was a British theoretical astrophysicist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 43
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,700
Ranked #2,408 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars.
- Lynden-Bell was President of the Royal Astronomical Society and received numerous awards for his work, including the inaugural Kavli Prize for Astrophysics.
- He worked at the University of Cambridge for his entire career, where he was the first director of its Institute of Astronomy.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Donald Lynden-Bell article was read about 4,700 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 43: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Donald Lynden-Bell
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Donald Lynden-Bell (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge – Amanda Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
