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Uncommon card · Science
Shinya Yamanaka, an Uncommon card
Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 55,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Shinya Yamanaka quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Shinya Yamanaka card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Yamanaka is also a past president of the ______ Society for Stem Cell Research.
Answer
International. Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. From the Shinya Yamanaka article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Civil ensign. Civil ensign 78 · Shinya Yamanaka 73 · Recreation 68 · Mihrab 65 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.
- He is a professor and the director emeritus of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, as well as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California, and a professor of anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
- He received the 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the biomedicine category, the 2011 Wolf Prize in Medicine with Rudolf Jaenisch, and the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize together with Linus Torvalds.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Shinya Yamanaka article was read about 55,000 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 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Shinya Yamanaka
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- Civil ensignUncommon · History · ATK 78 DEF 57
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- William JonesUncommon · History · ATK 73 DEF 62
- Berne ConventionUncommon · Arts · ATK 75 DEF 60
- Simon SinghUncommon · Arts · ATK 70 DEF 65
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Shinya Yamanaka (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : 日本学士院, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
