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Uncommon card · History
Severo Ochoa, an Uncommon card
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 102
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 102 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Severo Ochoa article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Severo Ochoa
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Severo Ochoa (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Irwin Gooen (NY University), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
