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Mar 2018
48m 42s

Celebrating Einstein

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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Join Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and astrophysicist Janna Levin as they celebrate the life and achievements of Albert Einstein and his impact on the scientific world around us including the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO.
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Credit: Ferdinand Schmutzer, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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