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The Forgotten Life of Mileva Marić Einstein

Pauline Gagnon

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Abstract

Today, February 11, is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the perfect day to remember Mileva Marić Einstein, a brilliant but largely unknown scientist. While her husband, Albert Einstein is celebrated as perhaps the best physicist of the century, one question about his career remains: How much did his first wife contribute to his groundbreaking science? While it is not possible to credit her with any specific part of his work, their letters and numerous testimonies presented in books dedicated to her $^{[1-5]}$ provide substantial evidence on how they collaborated from the time they met in 1896 up to their separation in 1914. They depict a couple united by a shared passion for physics, music and for each other. So here is her story.

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This is a write-up of a colloquium talk I gave at Fermilab on 3 Nov 2017
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physics.hist-phHistory and Philosophy of Physics physics.soc-phPhysics and Society

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    • I agree that the sweeping statement "had all the math done by his wife Mileva Marić Einstein" is too much. Also, they got divorced at some point and Einstein didn't stop working then; although they were married in the miracle year. A good reference is Appendix B, titled "The…

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