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Lesser-known and junior colleagues helped the great physicist to piece together his general theory of relativity, explain Michel Janssen and Jürgen Renn.

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  1. Michel Janssen is professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.,
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  2. Jürgen Renn is director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany.,
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Janssen, M., Renn, J. History: Einstein was no lone genius.Nature 527, 298–300 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/527298a

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