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Re^2: Organizational Culture (Part VII): Scienceby eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) |
on Sep 14, 2021 at 22:09 UTC ( [id://11136768]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
> That's a joke right? Yes. I'm not aware of any authentic Performance Appraisals of Albert Einstein, Patent Clerk. If you know of any (especially in German) please let us know! :)
> He didn't even receive the Nobel Prize for his Relativity Theories. This remains a mystery! I don't think Special Relativity was anything special (pun intended ;) - after the failure of the Michelson-Morley experiment, and the earlier works of Lorentz and Poincare, it was ripe to be found. If Einstein hadn't found it in 1905, someone else would surely have done so within the next few years. General Relativity is in a completely different ball park - if Einstein hadn't concocted it back then, we may still not know of it today! Einstein, a notoriously ordinary mathematician, struggled with the mathematics of General Relativity for eight long years following the 'happiest thought of his life'. By contrast, the World's leading mathematician David Hilbert found a solution within weeks of Einstein giving a series of lectures at the University of Gottingen in 1915. See also: History of general relativity and General relativity priority dispute. Back then the Nobel prize was traditionally awarded for Experimental rather than Theoretical physics. The politics and opinions of the individuals on the Nobel committee was undoubtedly a factor too. It seems we will never know the real reasons.From Why didnt Einsteins Nobel prize mention relativity-theory? (stackexchange question):
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