No, he declined duel authorship because he probably didn't want to be cited for having lead other scientists astray with his own inherent BS.... plus it would have rendered him obliged to re-substantiate his own formula , claim, at a time when other scientists were becoming increasingly suspicious of his controversial theories, feats.
Perhaps given the original source had deceased, this and doing so would have been difficult had someone expected him to explain his own theory?
Theory's he himself admitted would unlikely be proven fact for many years after his death, ....and this is being guarded by our sprawling Zionist-socialists movement still calling the shots in US today, ....who more or less portray him as being an individual of exceptional , almost immortal IQ potential, and to such an extent that one of them even stole and pickled his brain most mortem, without having asked for familial consent.
Their reasoning for why our scientists of today cannot make sense of some of his especially ridiculous and myth-busted theories is that modern scientists still haven't caught up with his genius yet.
It's politically incorrect to question his intellect, status, and who ever does, is immediately branded a racist/lunatic /jealous/trouble-maker...so most just keep it to themselves or publish it quietly.
He has been like so many cranks before him immortalised throughout the scientific pages of our history... and will be forever more.
it was a matter of good timing for an otherwise unremarkable Jewish school-boy who like Al Gore was very good at deceiving the masses and had family in the right placed to help him along in his pilgrimage to the US.
Now, after having named a university after him, this and awarding him a Nobel prize...it's unlikely they will retract, or scrutinise him now, (as doing so would reflect poorly on them) ...even if the general 'unspoken' consensus among modern academics and leading scientific lights are themselves inherently aware of his vast short-comings and plagiarised works.
He was a crack-pot with the right formula of the day.
e=mc2?
More like
e=rp2
He had no business bringing either politics or religion into the field of science, however this said, had he not done so, he would have remained working at the Swiss Patent Office... after having been repeatedly declined a position in the scientific course of his choice.
When someone has a great idea, makes a discovery, or invents something be it intellectual property or otherwise......where's the first place they go to secure it?
Many ideas have been stolen by patents officers over the years,(particularly the deceased).. think of patent theft as a business strategy.
The currency of innovation and it's applied industry even?