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Uncommon card · Science
Jack W. Szostak, an Uncommon card
Jack William Szostak is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 23,000
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Jack W. Szostak quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jack W. Szostak card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Szostak has made significant contributions to the field of ______.
Answer
genetics. Szostak has made significant contributions to the field of genetics. From the Jack W. Szostak article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Louis Bachelier. Louis Bachelier 66 · Jack W. Szostak 61 · Rings of Earth 57 · Peter Guthrie 54 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.
- Szostak has made significant contributions to the field of genetics.
- His achievement helped scientists to map the location of genes in mammals and to develop techniques for manipulating genes.
- His research findings in this area are also instrumental to the Human Genome Project.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jack W. Szostak article was read about 23,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Jack W. Szostak
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, Jack W. Szostak (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
