By stark contrast, grand breakthrough discoveries happen when you are, for instance, a penniless patent clerk in Switzerland, daydreaming about elevators moving near the speed of light. (discovermagazine.com)
Einsteinian trait: «Surfer dude» Lisi is more of an outsider than the onetime patent clerk. (discovermagazine.com)
Their mission: to test a radical theory of gravity dreamed up by a former patent clerk, who predicted that passing starlight should bend toward the sun. (scientificamerican.com)