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Einstein worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property from 1901 to 1908 while working on his dissertation and other papers. His former classmate, Marcel Grossmann, helped him secure the job after he failed to find work as a teacher.

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Albert Einstein reading at a podium at the Swiss patent office in Bern, Switzerland, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5307B.