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Article: The relative importance of Mrs. Einstein.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1990
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While developing the theory of special relativity in the years around 1905, Albert Einstein lived and worked with a fellow student who became his first wife. The late Mileva Einstein-Maric now has a small band of supporters who argue that she should get some-maybe most-of the credit for that work.
The Einsteins studied physics together at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich. They got similar grades, though both were mediocre compared with other students in their class. In letters to his wife, the young Einstein often discussed the ideas and experiments that led him (or her, or both) to discover special relativity.
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