The author can't be too happy with the picture of Albert Einstein at the top... For those that don't remember this Albert guy made one of the most important discoveries of all time; working in solitude, in the Swiss patent office, in-between reviewing patent applications. :)
And soon after, a team of experimentalists the world over set about proving him right. People rarely remember the experimentalists, the guys who go through all the hard work of providing the evidence to the theorists.