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On 2002-02-13 12:09, GrapesOfWrath wrote:
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On 2002-02-13 10:54, Wiley wrote:
Although neither was a mentor in the way that is common today.
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I dunno about common today, I hear plenty of horror stories about graduate research and relationships with advisors.
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If you're going to create a new, and successful, form of mechanics, it's probably best to be a little bit isolated, don't you think? The idea alone is isolating. Still, he wasn't "just" a patent clerk. He was credentialed to teach graduate physics courses at university, right? He just didn't have a job.
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Weber promised an assistantship to Einstein, but never delivered. This seems to the root of Einstein's antipathy towards Weber. Minkowski tried to get Einstein an assistantship, but for some unknown reason it never materialized. So, yes he was definitely qualified to teach; he just didn't have a job.
Enter friend Grossman. Grossman got his father to pull a few strings and got Einstein a job as a patent clerk, 3rd class. Towards the end of 1905, he was promoted to 2nd class. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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