My Chat with Physician & Physicist Dr. Manfred Steiner - Obtained 2nd PhD at 89 (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_445)

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🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Topics include Manfred's academic trajectory (MD, PhD in biochemistry, and PhD in physics), pursuing one's dreams and hence avoiding regret, mathematics, a brief mention of Alan Turing, Kurt Friedrich Gödel, Albert Einstein, being a Renaissance man including his love of history and mountaineering. Brown University's (physics department) article on Manfred's PhD defense in 2021: https://bit.ly/3dLAONs Note: Apologies for the low audio quality stemming from my guest. It is tough to always ensure maximal production quality. _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (August 26, 2022) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1448: https://youtu.be/jIoHJMtxgzk _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is God's
0:03.4	today I've got a very very special guest first if I may say the
0:09.7	oldest guest I've ever had second the most educated guest I've ever had. Second, the most educated guest I've ever had, Dr. Manfred Steiner, how you doing, sir?
0:18.0	I'm doing sign. So I wanted to tell people about your background because it's an extraordinary life that you've led and then you could fill in all the details.
0:29.0	MD degree from University of Vienna in 1955.
0:33.0	Then along the way a PhD in biochemistry at MIT
0:37.0	when I was almost born
0:39.0	and then retired from medicine in 2000
0:42.0	and then decided many, many years later to pursue a second PhD in physics from which you graduated just this past fall at Brown University.
0:52.0	Did I get those details right, my friend?
0:53.4	Correct, absolutely correct. So tell us about this unbelievable journey. Take it from wherever you want,
1:02.3	from why your parents told you you should pursue
1:04.4	medicine all the way to how you got a PhD at the age of 89.
1:10.6	Yes, that's a long story. Well, to make it a little bit shorter, let me start. I got interested in physics when I was at high school. First I said, gee, this is a really a cool subject
1:26.3	she recorded now. You know, I couldn't understand the precision that was in it
1:32.4	fascinated me.
1:34.2	Things that worked for astronomical dimensions
1:40.5	was applicable to the tiniest atom and the things that were going inside the atom, which is even smaller.
1:48.0	So this was fascinating to me and I read about it and there it was, I, it was in the year, after war years, it was in the early 50s that I started to study eventually medicine.
2:08.0	The reason why I started medicine was, my father had died during the war, I was killed.
2:14.4	And my mother, I had an uncle, who was a physician,
2:20.0	who actually was in this country at one time in the 30s to give a lecture tour.
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