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Mileva Marić (Einstein)

Taken in 1914.

Eduard-Mileva-Hans

Mileva was born on December 19th, 1875 in Titel, Serbia.

Birth Notes
- Maric is born into a wealthy family in Titel, in the province of Voivodina (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, today in Serbia). She is the oldest of three children.

She died at the age of 72 on August 4th, 1948 in Zurich.

Individual Additional Information
- Relationships
  - Mileva and Albert Einstein were in conflict with each other.

General Notes
- The extent of Mileva's contribution to Einstein's Annus Mirabilis Papers is controversial. According to Evan Harris Walker, a physicist, the basic ideas for relativity came from Mileva. Senta Troemel-Ploetz, a German linguist, says that the ideas may have been Albert's, but Mileva did the mathematics. On the other hand, John Stachel, keeper of Albert's letters, says that Mileva was little more than a sounding board. The case for Mileva as co-genius mostly depends on letters in which Albert referred to "our" theory and "our" work and on a divorce agreement in which Albert promised her his Nobel Prize money. He gave to Mileva the money from the Nobel Prize he received but he did not publicly acknowledge any putative scientific involvement by her in his work. Mileva used the award money to support their sons.

Education Details
- Mileva attended High School for girls from 1886 to 1887.
  - Education Notes
    - In Novi Sad
  She attended High School from 1888 to 1890.
  - Education Notes
    - Located in Sremska Mitrovica. This school was equipped with excellent laboratories for physics and chemistry.Her best grades were in mathematics and physics.
  She attended Royal School.
  - Education Notes
    - She was accepted as a private student at the royal school in Zagreb.
  She attended University of Zurich from 1896 to 1896 in Medecine.
  - Education Notes
    - After a term switched to the Federal Polytechnic Institute to study.
  She attended Federal Polytechnic Institute from 1896.
  - Education Notes
    - This was the only University in the area to accept women for the final exams. She is the fifth women to study physics at ETH, the only one in her year. During practical physics lessons, she gets to know Albert Einstein.
      
      Marić's relationship with Einstein developed into romance over the next few years.
  She attended Heidelburg, Germany.
  - Education Notes
    - She studies the theory of numbers, analytical mechanics, differential and integral calculus, elliptical functions, theory of heat, electrodynamics.
  She attended Federal Polytechnic Institute from 1898 to 1900. She failed the course.
  - Education Notes
    - Mileva Maric fails Zurich Polytechnic teaching diploma examination, almost certainly because of her poor grade in mathematics.

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