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Martin Evans, a Common card
Sir Martin John Evans FLSW is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 136
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,300
Ranked #2,199 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Martin Evans quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Martin Evans card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Sir Martin John Evans FLSW is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in ____.
Answer
1980s. Sir Martin John Evans FLSW is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. From the Martin Evans article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Martin Evans. Martin Evans 8,300 · Anglo-Saxon charters 5,800 · Fred H. Brown 2,900 · Roman Catholic Diocese of Grasse 720 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is also known, along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting, a method of using embryonic stem cells to create specific gene modifications in mice.
- In 2007, the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their discovery and contribution to the efforts to develop new treatments for illnesses in humans.
- He won a major scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge at a time when advances in genetics were occurring there and became interested in biology and biochemistry.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Martin Evans article was read about 8,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Martin Evans (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cardiff University, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
