The other einstein author

Albert and Mileva wrote several important papers together – one that was the basis for the Nobel Prize-winning Theory of Relativity.

Mileva first conceived the theory of relativity after the death of the couple’s first child. When Mileva became pregnant with their first child, she was forced to drop out of school before receiving her degree. While there, she also met Albert Einstein, who won her over with promises to treat her as an equal in love and marriage.

Mileva was the only woman studying physics at the prestigious Zurich Polytechnic School, where she became close friends with several other women pursuing a nontraditional path. Her father encouraged her to pursue her education, seeing that as her path forward in the world as a single woman.

Mileva’s brilliant mind was discovered early in her life as she easily grasped complex mathematic concepts. Born with a congenital hip defect, Mileva’s parents considered her damaged goods and not marriage material, so they redirected her to a life of scholarship. In her provocative novel, THE OTHER EINSTEIN, Marie Benedict examines the life of Albert Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Maric’.