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Gerald Edelman, an Uncommon card
Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 131
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 131 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Gerald Edelman quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gerald Edelman card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the ______ of antibody molecules.
Answer
structure. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. From the Gerald Edelman article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the ____ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system.
Answer
1970s. Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. From the Gerald Edelman article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Broadcast journalism. Broadcast journalism 76 · Appropriate technology 72 · Gerald Edelman 69 · Jean Sylvain Bailly 66 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.
- Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules.
- In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime.
- There is a continuity in this way between his work on the immune system, for which he won the Nobel Prize, and his later work in neuroscience and in philosophy of mind.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gerald Edelman article was read about 16,000 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 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Gerald Edelman (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
