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Thomas A. Steitz, a Common card
Thomas Arthur Steitz was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, best known for his pioneering work on the ribosome.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 93
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,500
Power 93 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Steitz was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".
- Steitz also won the Gairdner International Award in 2007 "for his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome which showed that the peptidyl transferase was an RNA catalyzed reaction, and for revealing the mechanism of inhibition of this function by antibiotics".
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thomas A. Steitz article was read about 8,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Thomas A. Steitz (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Prolineserver ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
