ABSTRACT
A less known controversy is that of whether Einstein should have cited Poincare and or Lorentz in his 1905 special theory of relativity paper, which is a fascinating aspect of the biography of Einstein by Abraham Pais. High levels of competition for jobs and funding in scientific research are believed both to bring out the best in people and (yet) to create incentives for poor quality research practices, less collaboration, and headline chasing. So this difficult state of affairs, now spanning all the centuries since modern science began, is carefully analysed by Fang and Casadevall building on the classic work of Merton published in 1957. Contrary to the conclusion in the report by the Nuffield Foundation, Einstein was privately employed in the Swiss Patent Office; research funding was not at stake, and it was a pencil-and-paper level of resource activity anyway, as was the Newton versus Leibnitz affair.
