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by eli_gottlieb 3625 days ago
Even the greatest geniuses do not advance their field by an order of magnitude all by themselves within seven years of receiving their PhD and their first permanent position (a tenure-track evaluation timeline). Einstein took ten years after publishing on special relativity and the photoelectric effect to discover and publish general relativity. Hell, in 1905, he only had five papers published and had just finished his PhD thesis.

You just denied tenure to Albert Einstein.

(Luckily, in real life, he was appointed a lecturer in 1908, three years after finishing his degree, and became an assistant professor in 1909 and a full professor in 1911.)