Lewis Fry Richardson, a Common card

Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist, and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them.
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Rarity: Common
Domain: Science
ATK: 71
DEF: 52
Power: 123
Wikipedia reads a year: 15,000

Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.

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Richardson is also noted for his pioneering work on fractals and a method for solving a system of linear equations known as modified Richardson iteration.

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Text : Wikipedia, Lewis Fry Richardson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NOAA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.