How does a missed diagnosis lead to a lifetime of blindness, and a fight to save others?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Sanford Greenberg - Second Generation Physicist, Innovation Nerd, Structure Champion.

Timestamps
1:40 - "I met my wife when we were in 6th grade."
3:25 - She was your "beshert."
5:35 - "I entered my junior year with 20/20 vision...by the end of the year, I had 0/0 vision."
11:56 - "I am a drop-out, I have no money, I have no eyes, and I have no future." She married me anyway.
16:50 - Where did you find the drive to say that you are not going to live a life of mediocrity?
22:03 - "When [my grandmother] hugged you, it was like being anointed."
24:45 - How did you get out of bed on the days where it felt like it was almost too much?
25:00 - Art Garfunkel and Sue were everything.
30:32 - "I suddenly walked into something very soft, a woman's breast."
33:19 - "My first thought when I woke up from surgery was, 'My God, my mother is seeing her eldest son go blind...'"
36:42 - Art Garfunkel left me to find my way home, completely blind, on the New York City Subway. "He said, 'I knew you could do it, but I wanted you to know that you could do it.'"
39:18 - "You have to deal with the blindness every day. Every hour. Every minute. The only rest you get is when you sleep."
43:05 - "It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science."
51:40 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a hero to us all, and a neighbor and friend to Sandy.
53:05 - End Blindness by 20/20
55:50 - "We decided that we would end blindness within the next 2,978 days. Because that was the time that it took Neil Armstrong to land on the moon..."