The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 7:

After fleeing the Nazis with his family as a child, Rai Weiss went on to fix radios outside of Harlem. He went to MIT, later flunking out after a rough love story, before returning, completing his PhD, and becoming a full professor and Winning a Nobel Prize.

Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with Nobel Prize Winner Rai Weiss, the man who discovered gravitational waves using LIGO. More info on him here:

https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/raine...

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