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Gates and Bezos absolutely dispensable. Both just very aggressive opportunists. Gates actually suffocated innovation, not fostered it.

The only one of the three you name where you could make a case for them making a real difference would be Jobs (and I say that even though I am a non-fan).

Plenty of people were working on the issues that relativity sought to resolve but I've never heard of any simultaneous discovery of relativity. Many of the other stuff Einstein worked on had multiple "discoveries", I remember reading some about Brownian motion before.

Absolutely yes on the Einstein question. Check out Bohr, Lorentz and Poincare to start.

And Hilbert actually beat him to the final equation.

Actually, he didn’t. I looked into it about six months ago. Einstein clearly got there first.

Essay: https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/einstein-and-hilberts-ra...