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> The funny part is that Einstein wasn't even in academia until after he was famous No...he was doing his PhD when he published the special relativity and othe

• oldprogrammer2 4y ago
  But wasn't he working at a patent office? I was under the impression that working on a PhD at that time and place would not have been considered "in academia", in that he was not teaching or assisting.
  • kelipso 4y ago
    He was but I guess definitions vary and I'd consider working on your PhD makes you definitely be in academia.
• aborsy 4y ago
  I am not sure if this is true. I think he was in a patent office when work was done and published in 1905.