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Har Gobind Khorana, an Uncommon card
Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 78,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Har Gobind Khorana quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Har Gobind Khorana card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Born in Raipur, Punjab, Khorana served on the ______ of three universities in North America.
Answer
faculties. Born in Raipur, Punjab, Khorana served on the faculties of three universities in North America. From the Har Gobind Khorana article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Shawnee, Oklahoma. Shawnee, Oklahoma 79 · Yohannes IV 75 · Har Gobind Khorana 71 · Belmopan 68 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins.
- Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
- Born in Raipur, Punjab, Khorana served on the faculties of three universities in North America.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Har Gobind Khorana article was read about 78,000 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 64: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Har Gobind Khorana (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
