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Selman Waksman, an Uncommon card
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Selman Waksman quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Selman Waksman card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in ______ or Medicine.
Answer
Physiology. For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. From the Selman Waksman article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Model aircraft. Model aircraft 75 · Selman Waksman 68 · British Academy 65 · El Mahalla El Kubra 61 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.
- For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Waksman emigrated to the United States in 1910 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1916.
- A professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers University for four decades, he discovered several antibiotics, and he introduced procedures that have led to the development of many others.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Selman Waksman article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Selman Waksman
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Selman Waksman (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Higgins, Roger, photographer., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
