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Uncommon card · Science
Stanley B. Prusiner, an Uncommon card
Stanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 43
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Stanley B. Prusiner quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Stanley B. Prusiner card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is the founding director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the ______ of California, San Francisco.
Answer
University. He is the founding director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. From the Stanley B. Prusiner article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Projection screen. Projection screen 64 · Stanley B. Prusiner 60 · Equatorial mount 56 · Pourpoint 50 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is the founding director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein, a scientific theory considered by many as a heretical idea when first proposed.
- He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for research on prion diseases developed by him and his team of experts beginning in the early 1970s.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Stanley B. Prusiner 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 60 and blocks with 43: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Stanley B. Prusiner
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Stanley B. Prusiner (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Christopher Michel, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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