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Einstein's Wife The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric

Allen Esterson

Was Einstein's first wife his uncredited coauthor, unpaid assistant, or his unacknowledged helpmeet? The real “Mileva Story.” Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva Einstein-Marić, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in...

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It was mentioned in passing, and discussed as a book that had posited Mileva Mari's contribution to Einstein's work. It was ultimately dismissed as inaccurate.

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But from my reading of the history, she was certainly his partner as he was working through in Bern as a poor patent examiner trying to do physics.

— Episode: Cosmic Queries – Proving Einstein Right

Episode: Cosmic Queries – Proving Einstein Right

It was mentioned in passing, and discussed as a book that had posited Mileva Mari's contribution to Einstein's work. It was ultimately dismissed as inaccurate.

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But from my reading of the history, she was certainly his partner as he was working through in Bern as a poor patent examiner trying to do physics.

But in the actual settling of the special theory of relativity from, and I've read over a dozen books trying to get this straight in my own head.

The preponderance of evidence is that he worked it out with a friend of his on a tram ride thinking about the clock tower in the city of Bern.

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