Chapter 30
Spring 1903
An Invitation
Albert threw the letter down on his desk and began pacing. “Fools!"
He was referring to professors Weber and Pernat of the Physics Department at the Polytechnic. They had declined to recommend him for a teaching position now that he had graduated. Albert had sought to locate Professor Meiss who had, at least at first, seemed to understand Albert’s passion for cutting-edge work. But he had become distant and then mysteriously disappeared.
As with most of his education, the general physics classes he took at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School did not engage Albert. As a result, he had alienated mainly the professors there when he embarked on a course of independent study to learn firsthand from the masters. He wished he could have been taught by
