Some Nobel laureates were straight-A students from the start — but others were far from it. They were expelled, bored, distracted — or simply too curious to sit still.
Some skipped classes, others failed their exams, and a few were told outright they’d never make it in academia. Yet decades later, their names would echo through Nobel halls.
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The world often celebrates polished prodigies and perfect scores, but history’s most groundbreaking minds didn’t always fit that mould.
Albert Einstein couldn’t stand routine lectures. Frances Arnold rebelled against rigid classrooms. David Card milked cows before mastering economics.
Each of them—through detours, doubts, and defiance—proved that genius can bloom far outside the neat boundaries of traditional education. Brilliance doesn’t always follow a straight academic line.
Here are a few of the most unconventional Nobel laureates who weren’t straight-A students:
ALBERT EINSTEIN — PHYSICS, 1921
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Perhaps the most iconic of them all, Albert Einstein, wasn’t exactly the teacher’s favourite.
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