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Philip Showalter Hench, a Common card
Philip Showalter Hench was an American physician.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 97
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,200
Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Philip Showalter Hench quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Philip Showalter Hench card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He began working at Mayo Clinic in 1923, later serving as the head of the Department of ______.
Answer
Rheumatology. He began working at Mayo Clinic in 1923, later serving as the head of the Department of Rheumatology. From the Philip Showalter Hench article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Robert W. Paul. Robert W. Paul 62 · Tatyana Afanasyeva-Ehrenfest 58 · Philip Showalter Hench 55 · Luggage carrier 52 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for the discovery of the hormone cortisone, and its application for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
- The Nobel Committee bestowed the award for the trio's "discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects." Hench received his undergraduate education at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and received his medical training at the United States Army Medical Corps and the University of Pittsburgh.
- He began working at Mayo Clinic in 1923, later serving as the head of the Department of Rheumatology.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Philip Showalter Hench article was read about 5,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Philip Showalter Hench
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The cards just above and just below Philip Showalter Hench in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Tatyana Afanasyeva-EhrenfestCommon · Science · ATK 58 DEF 39
- Dino LambCommon · Society · ATK 57 DEF 40
- Friedrich L. BauerCommon · History · ATK 61 DEF 36
- UCLA Santa Monica Medical CenterCommon · Society · ATK 53 DEF 44
- Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of BohemiaCommon · History · ATK 53 DEF 44
- Françoise CombesCommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 38
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Philip Showalter Hench (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
