>>14412053i think the einstein meme has been driven into people's heads so thoroughly via decades upon decades of nonstop imagery of the guy being spammed into every single media format ever invented, that if you looked like him that success in the sciences would be undeniable and inevitable. nobody would want to be the guy to stand in your way and tell einstein that he can't be a scientist because he didn't turn in his physics homework on time or something petty like that.
theres really no other scientists that had their image pushed at anywhere near to level einstein's was. if you looked like maxwell or rutherford or someone else significant from that era few people would recognize you, maybe a small percentage here recognize picrel
