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Jakob was born in
Austria-Hungary in 1884,
and he was working for the
University of Würzburg
at the time Albert’s
papers were published.
Jakob began writing
letters to Albert, and
the two struck up a
friendship. In 1908,
Jakob decided to visit Albert in Bern. He was
astonished to find Albert still in his patent-
clerk job, and thought it was a waste of Albert’s
extraordinary talents. Albert still wanted a
teaching position, but he felt that being a
patent clerk had its advantages, too. His pay
was good enough to support himself and his
family, and he had enough spare time to
continue his physics studies.
Albert and Jakob worked together to develop
Albert’s theories in regard to special relativity.
The original theory covered the concept as
relating only to one body at rest and another
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