#Scriptory is a series of whimsical essays that toys with the three following elements: Historical Oddities + Scriptwriting Format + Satire
Read the rest of the series here:
#Scriptory 1: Albert Einstein
#Scriptory 2: Winston Churchill
#Scriptory 3: Leo Tolstoy & Abe Lincoln
The current ranking of things that make me feel bad about how little I’ve achieved in life:
- All the amazing things that Jared Kushner has been able to accomplish at such a young age (all by himself with zero help from his family or father-in-law).
- Albert Einstein’s 1905 Annus Mirabalis (Miracle Year).
For those that want a quick recap of what Einstein was up to at the tender age of 26, here goes:
In June of 1902, Einstein was offered a job as a technical expert (third class) at the Bern Patent Office. For an annual salary of 3,500 francs, he was responsible for deciding whether submitted inventions were deserving of patent protection, whether they infringed on existing patents, and whether the products actually worked. Einstein could complete his tasks so quickly and so well that he had ample spare time in which to pursue his scientific work, and was even granted a raise of 400 francs soon after being hired…The years 1903-1905 were arguably the most productive years of Einstein’s entire career. In 1905, he published three papers that would transform physics in the twentieth century. The subjects of these papers were Brownian motion, quantum theory, and special relativity, each of which represented a groundbreaking solution to the most pressing problems facing physicists in Einstein’s day.
So, yeah. That happened.
The only solace I can gather from this depressing level of productivity is that Annus is one letter away from being “anus” (hah!) and that Einstein ended up marrying his first FIRST! cousin – Elsa Einstein.
Literally, her father’s name was Rudolph Einstein. Albert’s mother was sisters with Elsa’s mother.
Like, this wasn’t one of those situations when you find out (“oooops”) 30 years later you married your first cousin. This was real-time knowing and marrying of a first cousin.
Anyways, with that bit of dubiousness behind us, below is a short scene of Albert Einstein on a regular workday during his annus anus Miracle Year.
