Why Einstein Couldn’t Get a Job for 9 Years

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Einstein had to settle as a lowly patent clerk. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription Follow Newsthink on X https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Thank you to our Patrons, including: John & Becki Johnston Igli Laci Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:09 Einstein fails to get into college 1:40 Einstein’s grades at Zurich Polytechnic 2:02 Einstein irritates his university professors 2:51 Meeting Mileva Maric and illegitimate daughter Lieserl 4:40 Einstein fails to get a job 6:34 Working as a third-rate patent clerk 8:18 The ‘miracle’ year in 1905 starting with the photoelectric effect paper 9:10 Brownian Motion 9:40 Special theory of relativity 10:55 E = MC2 11:26 Einstein still struggles to get a job following 1905 papers 12:52 Falling in love with his Berlin cousin 13:09 Einstein and wife divorce 13:57 Elevator analogy for General Theory of Relativity 15:22 How the sun warps starlight 16:02 Einstein’s controversial character 17:21 Dropping the atomic bomb 18:25 Einstein troubled by quantum entanglement 19:05 Struggle to find a uniform field theory Special thanks to Soojin Han for permission to feature her performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 Full video of the performance https://youtu.be/-egBwAl6ahQ?si=BFYdq9Y0Vq9_tP3b Select images sourced from Alamy Sources: Lipoid Gymnasium, Einstein’s high school in Germany: Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Maxwell equations: FF-UK, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Swiss Patent Office in Bern Gidoca, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3., via Wikimedia Commons Italian cemetery where Hermann Einstein is buried: Paolobon140, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, Netherlands showcasing Einstein’s fountain pen Museum Boerhaave, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons NASA’s animation of how the sun warps starlight Animator: Scott Wiessinger