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		TheOtherHobbes on Feb 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Einstein arrived at his theory of general rela... That's a very good article and puts the other contributors in context. The fact that there was so much discussion between the main players is underappreciated. I strongly suspect that today GR would be a multi-author paper.

leephillips on Feb 12, 2022 [–]

Accepted practice for listing authors on scientific papers is always changing. In older papers you often have people listed in an acknowledgement who, today, would absolutely be on the author list.

lupire on Feb 12, 2022 | [–]

Because in the past the scientist's career wasn't contingent on getting on the author list.

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