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Maurice Wilkins, an Uncommon card
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 70,000
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Maurice Wilkins quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Maurice Wilkins card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Wilkins began ______ nucleic acids in 1948.
Answer
investigating. Wilkins began investigating nucleic acids in 1948. From the Maurice Wilkins article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
By ____, he and his team had produced some of the first high-quality X-ray diffraction images of DNA fibers.
Answer
1950s. By 1950, he and his team had produced some of the first high-quality X-ray diffraction images of DNA fibers. From the Maurice Wilkins article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is most noted for initiating and leading early X-ray diffraction studies on DNA at King's College London, and for his pivotal role in enabling the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
- Wilkins began investigating nucleic acids in 1948.
- By 1950, he and his team had produced some of the first high-quality X-ray diffraction images of DNA fibers.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Maurice Wilkins article was read about 70,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Maurice Wilkins (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was C. Goemans at German Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
