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Randy Schekman, an Uncommon card
Randy Wayne Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Randy Schekman quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Randy Schekman card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was elected to the National Academy of ______ in 1992.
Answer
Sciences. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. From the Randy Schekman article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Schekman shared the ____ Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.
Answer
2010s. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking. From the Randy Schekman article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jean-Pierre Jabouille. Jean-Pierre Jabouille 73 · J. A. Hobson 68 · Randy Schekman 64 · Contiki 60 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.
- In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust, launching in 2012.
- He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
- Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Randy Schekman article was read about 18,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Randy Schekman (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
