However, it's not entirely their fault for overthinking; similar situations have been common in the European scientific community. Although disputes in the natural philosophy world don't reach the brink of life and death like politics, there's still plenty of underhanded dealings.
Not to mention, didn't Faraday face accusations of academic fraud and plagiarism in his early years?
No one could understand better than him how Ohm must be feeling right now.
The researchers at the Royal Society were all indignant, which was exactly the effect Arthur wanted to see.
Why did he present Ohm's paper to the Royal Society instead of the French Academy of Sciences or the Berlin Academy of Sciences?
Precisely because there are more experimental physicists of humble origin here.
