Albert Einstein's close friends and colleagues from the Patent Office — mentioned by btrettel

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 15:15:44 GMT

I was a USPTO patent examiner twice before. The job today is not as you describe, and I doubt it was as you describe in Einstein's day either. By Einstein's own words, being a patent examiner was a lot of work [1, pp. 102--103]: > he complained about the workload: "I have a frightful lot of work. Eight hours at the office each day and at least one private lesson, and then I have my scientific work." [26] Once he had settled in, though, he found his forty-eight hours per week at the office tolerable. When his friend Habicht was not entirely satisfied with the school service, in which he had…

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Albert Einstein's close friends and colleagues from the Patent Office — mentioned by btrettel