Here in RG there is often reference to Albert Einstein’s work. Mileva Marić and Albert Einstein married in 1903. Mileva Marić (December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948) was a Serbian physicist.
I think it is important to remind that scientist Mileva Marić could have a major scientific role in Einstein’s work. What do you think?
Reference:
Women's Studies International Forum, ScienceDirect
Mileva Einstein-Marić: The woman who did Einstein's mathematics - Research Article
Volume 13, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 415–432, by Senta Troemel-Ploetz
At the age of twenty-one Mileva entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in 1896, the same year as Einstein, who was three-and-a-half years younger than Mileva. She was, in that year, the only woman beginning studies in the mathematical section of the School for Mathematics and Science teachers.
While married to Mileva Maric at the age of 26, Einstein published in 1905 three fundamental contributions to three different areas of physics, a unique event in the history of science. In 1921, Einstein received the Nobel Prize for those contributions.
Mileva entered Einstein's life in a crucial period of his scientific achievements and helped him in his endeavor. Einstein's marriage to Mileva was an intellectual partnership. Einstein admired Mileva's calm independence and intellectual ambitions. He consider himself lucky to have founded Mileva, "a creature who is my equal and who is strong and independent as I am" said Einstein.
Einstein continues to discuss the topics of his scientific interest with Mileva and with his friends Michele Besso and Marcel Grossman.
While working on the subject of electrodynamics of moving bodies, Einstein wrote to Mileva about "our work on relative motion".
Einstein was reading together with Mileva, the classic works of Boltzmann, Drude, Helmholtz, Herz, Kirchkoff and Osward. This reading had an important role on his education.
Einstein and Mileva shared common interested in physics and science.
Mileva spend her winter semester 1897-1898 in Heidelberg, Germany. In her letter to Einstein written from Heidelberg, Mileva expressed her fascination with a lecture of the German physicist Phillip Lenard about the relationship between the velocity of molecules and the distance traversed by it between collisions, a topic relevant in Einstein's studies of Brownian motion.
Mileva contributions to the Einstein success story will be further elicitated in important volumes of the "Collected Papers of Albert Einstein".
Dear Jorge,
I would like to thank you for this valuable information. I think is important to get informed about the social, scientific and humanitarian context of very important discoveries that change our world. It is not only an obligation as scientists to do not forget Mileva’s scientific achievement and Mileva contributions to the Einstein success story but this reveals the importance and the role of the knowledge and truth in social and scientific progress.
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