François Arago, an Uncommon card

Dominique François Jean Arago, known simply as François Arago, was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries, and politician.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: History
ATK: 71
DEF: 59
Power: 130
Wikipedia reads a year: 30,000

Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

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In physics, he is known for helping establishing the wave theory of light.
The Arago spot, an important experiment in optics that demonstrated this phenomenon, is named after him.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The François Arago article was read about 30,000 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 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, François Arago (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Charles de Steuben, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.