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human
Would a great scientist or intellectual be able to skip the rungs and jump straight to the top of the academic ladder or does he have to rise up as everyone else?

Suppose you are an ordinary person to the world but secretly you are a genius and you discover or create something extraordinary that puts you on par with Einstein, Newton etc. However you are not famous in the media or in the international scientific community and you live a low profile existence. 

In such a case would you have to start from the bottom of the academic career ladder and go up the rung at the same speed as the rest of the academics/lecturers? Or would you be quickly sent up at the top (like from lecturer to full professor)?


PS: I meant jumping from the bottom of the academic career ladder to the top with groundbreaking work. I did not mean becoming a tenured position from a contractual one.
gpt
With a combination of talent, charm, and being in the right lab at the right time, people sometimes get to skip the postdoc phase and go straight from Ph.D. to tenure track.  It's rare, but it happens.