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Epic card · Science
James Watson, an Epic card
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 710,000
Ranked #643 of 3,000 cards by power (ATK + DEF) in the base set.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper on DNA entitled, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid".
- Published in the scientific journal Nature, the paper proposed the existence of the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, having built on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling.
- In 1962, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The James Watson article was read about 710,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, James Watson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Newspaper Enterprise Association, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.







