Yep. You can find examples in pretty much any field you wish to look.
It is rather normal for the masses to be misinformed, wrong, or simply ignorant.
EDIT: Einstein and Tesla were both Patent Clerks. So they both actually fit what I described specifically. That was the reason I mentioned them.
I did not realize Einstein was a patent clerk, I knew Tesla was.
Yep I'm fairly certain both of them were...
Yep he was.
I'm the opposite
Never knew Tesla worked in a Patent Office too
It's kind of cool that they both did it
Legend has it, Einstein took the job so he'd have more un-distracted time to ponder, think through and articulate his discoveries
I guess it would have made sense at a certain point in Nikola's career to work in the field of patents due to all the inventing he was doing
And forgive my ignorance – it's tremendous – I wonder if Einstein has any patents of his own