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Sounds like an excellent use of H1B; but I'm sure it's not a common one.

Was he making as much as an American? Also did he get huge bonus for the excellent work he did?

So how much were you paying him? (Last week?) there was an article about someone trying to double the H1B minimum wage to $140k; surely if this physicist is as important as you say he is, you were compensating him around that figure, no?