I never doubted him reading the thesis posted by CERN after that incident when it happened. Einstein was way ahead of his time.
His General and Special theories took over 20 years to prove with respect to the bending of light and space.
And him going up to collect the Noble for his work on the Photoelectric effect and talk endlessly about the GTR was brillant.
Lost the way it with the Unified Field Theory, but that's only because of the sheer number of variables involved of which later on in life he admitted was an error in judgement.
Cheers Albert.
We'll never think of time and space the same again, the CRO TV and the Police taking finger prints amongst many others electronically owe it all to you (and others) for the work you done.
May many other Patent Clerks go on and change the way in which we see the world.