Albert Einstein is a universally known but unusual person almost entirely for his professional accomplishments. Very few people can explain the theory of relativity. A lot can also be said about the personal life of the man who came up with it, but the lack of documentation is not to blame. Thank you to Science YouTuber Toby Hendyfor example, has some of the love letters he wrote to women that made up a veritable parade throughout his life. Also, in Another video of her channel TibiaHendy reads a letter he wrote during the process of divorce from his first wife, a Serbian physicist and mathematician. Myrba Maric.
Einstein married Maric in January 1903, Hendy says. “After they had been together for about five years. Relationships were at their best. So was academic productivity. In 1905, Einstein published his four major papers that changed the face of physics. elsa lowenthal.
By 1914, Einstein wrote to Marić that “their conditions continue to live together.” The condition is read as follows:
conditions
A. You will certainly:
1. That my clothes and laundry are well maintained.
2. That I receive three regular meals in my room.
3. That my bedroom and study are kept clean and especially that my desk is left only for my use.
B. You renounce all personal relations with me, unless it is completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, you’ll mess up:
1. I’m sitting at home with you.
2. I will go out and travel with you.
C. You will follow the following points in your relationship with me:
1. You don’t expect intimacy from me and you never judge me.
2. If I ask for it, you will stop talking to me.
3. If I request it, you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest.
D. You will undertake not to disrespect me in front of our children through words or actions.
They agreed to implement this strict plan, but less than two weeks later he wrote to Elsa: “Yesterday my wife left with the children.”
Einstein married Lowenthal in 1919, a union that lasted until her death in 1935, although it was not characterized by ideal fidelity. There are many other women, but none played quite the same role in her life as Maric. According to the science of lost women“There is little concrete evidence to support the claim that Maric was a co-author of Einstein’s first major work. That said, there is plenty of personal testimony from people who knew Maric and Einstein that her involvement was likely.” Regardless, one condition of their divorce settlement determined that Maric would receive the Nobel Prize money. This makes it clear that whatever the importance of her own scientific work, she must have had a good head on her shoulders.
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