Einstein did 3 separate and mind bending discoveries each worth a noble-price (and published them in the same year). More importantly Einstein's peers thought

Einstein did 3 separate and mind bending discoveries each worth a noble-price (and published them in the same year). More importantly Einstein's peers thought he was above them all. Quoting Eugene Wigner who know both Einstein and Von Neumann. "I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in law; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my closest friends; and Albert Einstein was a good friend, too. But none of them had a mind as quick and acute as Jancsi (John) von Neumann. I have often remarked this in the presence of those men and no one ever disputed. But Einstein's understanding was deeper even than von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jancsi's brilliance, he never produced anything as original."