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Albert Einstein, by the way, acquired Swiss citizenship, received his education in mathematics and physics at the Federal Institute of Technology in Z\u00fcrich, and formulated his \u201cspecial theory of relativity\u201d (among many other significant things) while working as a clerk in the Swiss patent office in Bern, roughly an hour\u2019s drive from where I sit looking at nearby cliffs and a glacier.<\/p>\n
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