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Barbara Sipos’ Keeping In Touch Newsletter
October 2008
A Patent Clerk By Day – Genius By Night
Have you ever heard the saying, “Don’t quit your day job”? Well, 20th-century genius Albert
Einstein took that to heart.
Einstein started out his remarkable career working a normal day job – eight hours a day, six days a
week as technical expert in the patent office in Bern, Switzerland. After a day’s hard work, he spent
his time walking around the city with friends and talking about physics. Einstein worked at the
patent office for seven years and in his spare time changed the laws of
physics, eventually winning the 1921 Nobel Prize in the field. And even
though during that time he’d written and published four historic papers
including the Special Theory of Relativity (celebrating its 100th
anniversary this year), and introduced the celebrated equation “E =
mc²,” he stayed at the patent office because he enjoyed having a regular
payday.
Einstein’s job at the patent office might even have helped him conceive
some of his ideas. If he’d theorized at a college or university about the
idea that space and time weren’t absolute, his professors might not have
accepted his theory. They may have picked apart his ideas and
destroyed his desire to continue exploring physics.
The job also kept his mind sharp because people’s
inventions constantly needed his undivided attention
and evaluation. This required him to use his powers
of visualization and to use specifications and
drawings to test the ideas out.
Einstein wrote: “Working on the final formulation
of technological patents was a veritable blessing for
me. It enforced many-sided thinking and also
provided important stimuli to physical thought.”
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
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How To Carve That Perfect Pumpkin
Cell Phone Safety
Don’t Overcook Veggies
Why We Thirst For The Fearsome
Canada’s Time for Thanks
Fine Tuning Your Listening Skills
A Crafty Entrepreneur
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