This seems to be the norm rather than the exception. On a tangent, the genius of people like eg Einstein is not so much that he came up with all these things:

This seems to be the norm rather than the exception. On a tangent, the genius of people like eg Einstein is not so much that he came up with all these things: other people were close, but that he was a singular individual that did all of these discoveries, instead of five different guys all making some breakthrough here or there.