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Uncommon card · Science
Mária Telkes, an Uncommon card
Mária Telkes was a Hungarian-American biophysicist, engineer, and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 137
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Power 137 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- She moved to the United States in 1925 to work as a biophysicist.
- She became an American citizen in 1937 and started work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create practical uses of solar energy in 1939.
- During World War II, she developed a solar water distillation device, deployed at the end of the war, which saved the lives of downed airmen and torpedoed sailors.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mária Telkes article was read about 24,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Mária Telkes
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mária Telkes (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
