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Godfrey Hounsfield, an Uncommon card
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans.
- The scale is defined in Hounsfield units, running from air at −1000 HU, through water at 0 HU, and up to dense cortical bone at +1000 HU and more.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Godfrey Hounsfield article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Godfrey Hounsfield
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Godfrey Hounsfield (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
