EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE GENIUS WASN'T JUST ABOUT IQ

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: March 15, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Why was it Albert Einstein and not some other clever physicist who changed our view of the cosmos in 1905? What allowed this young man to see what so many others had missed?

No one can say whether he was truly the smartest man alive. There certainly were other smart scientists at work at the same time, but Einstein did have a unique vision, a gift for identifying the most important problems in physics, and a dogged determination to keep pursuing them.

One advantage and it certainly wouldn't have seemed like an advantage at the time is that Einstein was an outcast.

By 1905, though 26, he ...

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