I'll say one thing for this discussion; it throws some light on who did what in physics around the turn of the last century.

A few decades ago I read a very convincing account of how Louis Pasteur stole the idea of what became known as "pasteurization" from one of his students.

It might be interesting to conduct an investigation of the history of the great ideas of "great people".

Interesting, perhaps, but of little real value, I suspect.

There never was nothing.