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Helen Sawyer Hogg, a Common card
Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg was an American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research into globular clusters and variable stars.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 76
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Helen Sawyer Hogg quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Helen Sawyer Hogg card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She was considered a "great scientist and a ______ person" over a career of sixty years.
Answer
gracious. She was considered a "great scientist and a gracious person" over a career of sixty years. From the Helen Sawyer Hogg article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Mayor of Taipei. Mayor of Taipei 77 · Sethuraman Panchanathan 72 · Margherita Hack 68 · Helen Sawyer Hogg 64 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.
- She was the first female president of several astronomical organizations and a scientist when many universities would not award scientific degrees to women.
- Her dedication to sharing astronomy with the wider public led to scientific advocacy and journalism, including columns in the Toronto Star and the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
- She was considered a "great scientist and a gracious person" over a career of sixty years.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Helen Sawyer Hogg article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 76: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Helen Sawyer Hogg
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Helen Sawyer Hogg (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Northern Electric Company Limited, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
