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Einstein needs no introduction.
He is one of the greatest physicists of all time.
Here’s what you may not know about his career before his incredible year of scientific discoveries.
After he graduated from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, Switzerland, Einstein couldn’t secure a job for almost two years.
He moved to Bern, Switzerland, to work as a patent clerk when he failed to get a job in his field of work. He managed to publish his breakthrough papers whilst he was still a clerk.
Einstein published many papers in his career, but his scientific papers in 1905 defined his career for good and changed our perception of the world.
Einstein was not a lone genius.
His first wife, Mileva Marić, friends, teachers, and mentors made valuable contributions to his ideas earlier in his career.
But when the time was right to explore his ideas further, he made time to dig deeper outside his clerk duties.
The question is: how did someone working as a full-time patent clerk manage to publish four…