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Uncommon card · Science
Edwin H. Land, an Uncommon card
Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 52,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision.
- His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in one minute or less.
- Land received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the IRI Medal in 1965, the Perkin Medal in 1974, the Harold Pender Award in 1979, and the National Medal of Technology in 1988.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Edwin H. Land article was read about 52,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 59: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Edwin H. Land
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Edwin H. Land (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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