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> The funny part is that Einstein wasn't even in academia until after he was famous

No...he was doing his PhD when he published the special relativity and other papers that made him famous.

But wasn't he working at a patent office? I was under the impression that working on a PhD at that time and place would not have been considered "in academia", in that he was not teaching or assisting.

He was but I guess definitions vary and I'd consider working on your PhD makes you definitely be in academia.

I am not sure if this is true. I think he was in a patent office when work was done and published in 1905.

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