Mileva Maric - The Reality behind Relativity

Abstract:

A century ago a woman could not even dream about becoming a scientist. That idea was considered outrageous. There were some women that remained forgotten in the shadows of the men they were with. One of them was Mileva Maric, Albert Einstein’s first wife. Many people have never even heard of her before, but the truth is that she was more of a genius than the greatest physicist himself: her husband. An introspect into her early life, as a female student, and as a wife, an analysis of destroyed marriage, her humble and loving character, and the treatment she got form Einstein and other men who considered women inferior, will eventually show us that appearances are deceiving. From the love letters between her and Albert, we will observe how she was deceived into a marriage that ended up bringing a lot of sorrow in her life. Thus, her dream to become a physicist was shattered.

The purpose of the paper is to show how Mileva Maric, Albert Einstein’s first wife and love contributed highly to the development of the famous Theory of Relativity, theory for which her husband won the Nobel Prize, and also a theory for which she was never given any credit. This will involve a profound historical analysis of the personality of Mileva, her relationship with Einstein, his attitude towards her and others, and the struggles in her live.

The life of Mileva Maric is not even close to what we would expect. When we hear about Albert Einstein and his life we focus only on him, but never on the actual people that appeared in his life, and that they might have disserved a lot more credit that they actually did. When we have a very shining light in front of us we tend to forget that something else might lie behind it, something that might actually even enhance the brightness of the light we are looking at.

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