To pay the bills, he worked at the Swiss patent office, analyzing the inventions of others.

为了维持家计，他在瑞士专利局工作，专门分析其他人的发明。

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After graduating from the Polytechnic School in Zurich he wrote scientific papers in his spare time while working as a Swiss patent officer.

从苏黎世联邦工业大学毕业后，他供职于瑞士联邦专利局，并在业余时间撰写科学。

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Einstein first worked in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern before writing three scientific papers that changed the understanding of time, space and reality.

在写出三篇科学论文之前，爱因斯坦最初在瑞士专利局工作。这三篇论文改变了对时间、空间和现实的看法。

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The paper was penned by a 26-year-old Swiss patent clerk with dark, curly hair years before he sprouted that signature nest of white hair.

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Healthcare campaigners have welcomed India's rejection of a legal bid by Swiss company Novartis to patent a new version of its cancer drug, Glivec.

BBC: Novartis India case: Campaigners hail patent rejection

"It is a landmark judgement, " Sakhtivel Selvaraj, a leading Delhi-based health economist, tells me, hours after the Indian Supreme Court's decision to reject a plea by Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis to patent an updated version of its cancer drug, Glivec.

BBC: Is Novartis ruling a watershed?