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Where did Albert Einstein create the general theory of relativity?
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The development of the General Theory of Relativity was not just a single effort. It was the combination of several things Einstein worked on. Einstein published his first paper on Special Relativity while working in the Swiss patent office. It may be assumed that he created much the theory while working there although he undoubtedly spent a great deal of time outside of work pondering on it and probably had been thinking of parts of it even before he took the patent examiner job.
His work on General Relativity occured between 1907 and 1915 so he started it while working in Bern, continued his work while working as a lecturer at the University of Bern in 1908, then physics docent at the University of Zurich in 1909, then full professor at Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1911, then he returned to Germany after being appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics and a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
It can therefore be said that he created the General Theory of Relativity step by step in Bern, Zurich, Prauge, and Berlin.
Einstein published his first paper on General Relativity while working in the Swiss patent office. It may be assumed that he created much the theory while working there although he undoubtedly spent a great deal of time outside of work pondering on it and probably had been thinking of parts of it even before he took the patent examiner job.
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Who is the best scientist in the world and why?
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