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Venki Ramakrishnan, an Uncommon card
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an Indian origin British-American structural biologist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 136
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 84,000
Power 136 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Venki Ramakrishnan quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Venki Ramakrishnan card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He served as ______ of the Royal Society from 2015 to 2020.
Answer
President. He served as President of the Royal Society from 2015 to 2020. From the Venki Ramakrishnan article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He shared the ____ Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes.
Answer
2000s. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes. From the Venki Ramakrishnan article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Cape Colony. Cape Colony 150,000 · Afonso I of Portugal 110,000 · Venki Ramakrishnan 84,000 · Antipater 67,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes.
- Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- He served as President of the Royal Society from 2015 to 2020.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Venki Ramakrishnan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Prolineserver ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
