This is an easy and naive view of Einstein. Would you argue the same for Newton? The truth is special relativity was going to be discovered soon regardless, gen

This is an easy and naive view of Einstein. Would you argue the same for Newton? The truth is special relativity was going to be discovered soon regardless, general relativity was a leap that required a leader as unique as Einstein, Newton, Galileo. Of course he had a lot of help from Hilbert. I don't consider collaborating on a discovery as grounds to dismiss a scientist as "not unique".