Newton's profile on Google Scholar states that his email address is verified, while Einstein's is not.

Jay Cummings, a mathematics professor at California State University, Sacramento, has discovered that the profile of Isaac Newton, known for discovering the law of universal gravitation, is listed as 'email verified' on Google Scholar, a website for searching academic papers.

Isaac Newton has verified his email on Google Scholar. And has recently picked up a professorship at MIT. Good for him.

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— Jay Cummings (@LongFormMath) October 14, 2024

Google Scholar has a 'verified email' for Sir Isaac Newton
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-scholar-has-a-verified-email-for-sir-isaac-newton/

Below is Isaac Newton's Google Scholar page. In addition to information about his published papers and how frequently they have been cited, it also shows that he is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and that he is 'verified by an MIT email address.'

Isaac Newton - Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6tmn5WoAAAAJ

On the other hand, theoretical physicist Albert Einstein has 'no email authentication.'

Albert Einstein - Google Scholar

First of all, Google Scholar is a service that was launched in November 2004, so it is impossible for Newton, who died in 1727, or Einstein, who died in 1955, to authenticate themselves. Also, although the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a history of over 100 years, it was founded in 1861, after Newton's death. Newton taught at Cambridge University.

Regarding this situation, Aks Sharma of the news site Bleeping Computer said, 'There's nothing strange or weird about this.'
This is because the 'Verified' on your Google Scholar profile page is different from the identity verification on social media sites in that it only indicates that you have verified your email address, and anyone can create a profile. In fact, Sharma is testing how to display the 'Verified' message on his own profile using a Georgia Tech email address.

Ax Sharma - Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NWBt5kYAAAAJ

Based on his findings, Sharma concluded that 'anyone with an MIT email address could have created a Newton profile and verified it,' and added, 'hopefully that someone is a representative of the university, or at least a responsible party.'