>>20965764He wasn't the first. But most people in that area of physics knew that already. Special Relativity wasn't an Einstein only thing, Poincaré and Lorentz contributed a bunch to the stuff and deserve about the same credit. The reason Einstein is worshipped by physicists is because of General Relativity, which is mostly an original idea. Not to say the other lesser stuff like his contributions to Brownian mechanics and Photon theory. He was a mega genius, not my favourite mega genius, but a mega genius nonetheless.
