in Einstein's time there was very little peer review, there is a famous anecdote there, the first time that his paper was actually peer-reviewed (perhaps in th

in Einstein's time there was very little peer review, there is a famous anecdote there, the first time that his paper was actually peer-reviewed (perhaps in the 50s) and sent back to him with instructions on what to change he wrote back something along the following lines: "there must be a mistake there, I sent in this paper for publication, not to get an opinion on how to improve it"