WikiCards · Card list · Science cards · John Polanyi
Uncommon card · Science
John Polanyi, an Uncommon card
John Charles Polanyi is a German-born Hungarian-Canadian chemist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 139
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 139 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical reaction dynamics.
- Polanyi was born into the prominent Hungarian Polányi family in Berlin, Germany, prior to his family emigrating in 1933 to the United Kingdom where he was subsequently educated at the University of Manchester, achieving his Ph.D in 1952, and did postdoctoral research at the National Research Council in Canada and Princeton University in New Jersey.
- Polanyi's first academic appointment was at the University of Toronto in 1956, and he remains there as of 2025 as University Professor Emeritus.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Polanyi article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get John Polanyi
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.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below John Polanyi in the power ranking, all domains together.
- History of engineeringUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 70
- Kingdom of SerbiaUncommon · History · ATK 74 DEF 65
- Leon M. LedermanUncommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 68
- Masaya MoritaUncommon · Society · ATK 72 DEF 67
- Akira MiyawakiUncommon · Science · ATK 74 DEF 65
- ChorãoUncommon · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 65
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Science cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Polanyi (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.