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Chris Wright: “President Trump's uncle, John Trump, was a pioneer in…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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Trump Jokes With Chris Wright As He Tries To Remember The Publication Of An Einstein Paper

Published | Video Starts at 00:28

And usually they won't catch you. But good. Published a paper on the photoelectric effect, recognizing the quantum behavior of light that it came in quanta. Forty years after that, President Trump's uncle, John Trump, was a pioneer in applying light radiation and reflections to develop radar at the MIT Radiation Lab. Critical in D day, critical in the end in winning World War II. That's the parallel of quantum innovation. (00:28–00:42)

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Asserts that John Trump contributed to radar development at MIT Radiation Lab.

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