Christopher Jon Bjerknes (1965– ) expounds at length upon the misdeeds of “the incorrigible plagiarist” [[xxxii]]. By passing off the work of others as his own and without acknowledgement, Einstein enhanced his own reputation for genius while denigrating the contributions of his colleagues.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, however. Did Einstein write his own papers by himself? Or did he have help? “Oh, that Einstein,” his math professor, Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) declared, “always cutting lectures — I really would not have believed him capable of it” [[xxxiii]]. Einstein was able to skip class because his good friend, Swiss mathematician Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936), shared his meticulous notes [[xxxiv]]. ‘‘For me it [Einstein’s success] came as a tremendous surprise,” Minkowski explained to his former student Max Born, “for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog. He never bothered about mathematics at all
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