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Author: Mileva Einstein-Marić
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801878565
Category : Physicists
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Through previously unpublished letters written to her best friend over 30 years, this collection offers an intimate portrait of Einstein's first wife and a troubled marriage that ended in divorce and depression.

Author: Allen Esterson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262538970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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The real-life story behind Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein—a fascinating profile of mathematician Mileva Einstein-Marić and her contributions to her husband’s scientific discoveries. Albert Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Einstein-Marić, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in 1986, her story began to be told. Some of the tellers of the “Mileva Story” made startling claims: that she was a brilliant mathematician who surpassed her husband, and that she made uncredited contributions to his most celebrated papers in 1905, including his paper on special relativity. This book, based on extensive historical research, uncovers the real “Mileva Story.” Mileva was one of the few women of her era to pursue higher education in science; she and Einstein were students together at the Zurich Polytechnic. Mileva’s ambitions for a science career, however, suffered a series of setbacks—failed diploma examinations, a disagreement with her doctoral dissertation adviser, an out-of-wedlock pregnancy by Einstein. She and Einstein married in 1903 and had two sons, but the marriage failed. So was Mileva her husband’s uncredited coauthor, unpaid assistant, or his essential helpmeet? It’s tempting to believe that she was her husband’s secret collaborator, but the authors of Einstein's Wife look at the actual evidence, and a chapter by Ruth Lewin Sime offers important historical context. The story they tell is that of a brave and determined young woman who struggled against a variety of obstacles at a time when science was not very welcoming to women. Given the barriers women in science still face, [Mileva’s] story remains relevant.” —Washington Post

Author: Marie Benedict
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492637262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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From beloved New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Benedict comes the story of a not-so-famous scientist who not only loved Albert Einstein, but also shaped the theories that brought him lasting renown. In the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Paula McClain, Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This novel resurrects Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated. Was she simply Einstein's sounding board, an assistant performing complex mathematical equations? Or did she contribute something more? Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. Then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage. Marie Benedict illuminates one pioneering woman in STEM, returning her to the forefront of history's most famous scientists. "The Other Einstein takes you into Mileva's heart, mind, and study as she tries to forge a place for herself in a scientific world dominated by men."—Bustle Recommended by PopSugar, Bustle, Booklist, Library Journal and more! Other Bestselling Historical Fiction from Marie Benedict: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie The Only Woman in the Room Lady Clementine Carnegie's Maid

Author: Albert Einstein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691088861
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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Fifty-four love letters portray the caring relationship between Albert Einstein and his first wife by showing how Maric acted as the genius's intellectual confidant during his isolated years at Princeton.

Author: Daniel Kennefick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to weigh light by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner? In No Shadow of a Doubt, Daniel Kennefick provides definitive answers by offering the most comprehensive and authoritative account of how expedition scientists overcame war, bad weather, and equipment problems to make the experiment a triumphant success. The reader follows Eddington on his voyage to Africa through his letters home, and delves with Dyson into how the complex experiment was accomplished, through his notes. Other characters include Howard Grubb, the brilliant Irishman who made the instruments; William Campbell, the American astronomer who confirmed the result; and Erwin Findlay-Freundlich, the German whose attempts to perform the test in Crimea were foiled by clouds and his arrest. By chronicling the expeditions and their enormous impact in greater detail than ever before, No Shadow of a Doubt reveals a story that is even richer and more exciting than previously known.

Author: Roger Highfield
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312302276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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This controversial account of Albert Einstein's scandalous personal life challenges the image of this genius, painting a shocking portrait that exposes him as "an adulterous, egomaniacal misogynist who may have even beaten his first wife"(The New York Times Sunday Magazine). Photos.

Author: Albert Almoznino
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486418766
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Clear explanations and over 70 illustrations demonstrate how to position your hands to make lifelike shadows of a lumbering dinosaur, a pair of playful monkeys, an eagle taking flight, a cat scratching itself, a howling wolf, a neighing horse, a dog that eats a rabbit, and many other figures.

Author: John Himmelman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250230179
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! In John Himmelman's early chapter book series, Albert Hopper is a frog—and a science hero! He seeks to explore the world and beyond, generating laughs and imparting STEM wisdom as he goes. Albert Hopper, Science Hero is on a mission: to travel to the center of the earth! With his wormlike ship Wiggles and the help of his niece and nephew, trusty Junior Science Heroes Polly and Tad, Hopper is ready to go where no frog has gone before. Thick layers of rock and rubble, tunnels of lava, and temperatures of 6,000 degrees stand between our heroes and their prize. Will they make it? Find out in this funny and informative adventure.

Author: Radmila Milentijevic
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9780578153933
Category : Physicists
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND EINSTEIN AS BOTH A MAN AND A GENIUS WITHOUT A DETAILED STUDY OF HIS WIFE MILEVA WHO ENABLED THE MOST CREATIVE AND DEFINING PERIOD OF EINSTEIN'S LIFE. This is the first in-depth study of Mileva Maric Einstein and her complex life-long relationship with her husband Albert Einstein. Mileva Maric had a promising future as the only woman in 1896 to enter the elite Polytechnic in Zurich. She was a person of extraordinary intelligence and talent. However, when Maric met Albert Einstein that year, her fate became bound to his life and ambition. Raised in a patriarchal Serbian family, she was willing to sacrifice her own academic career and even her visibility to the dream of achieving something even greater, together. Einstein wrote about her as an "equal" referring to "our theory," "our paper," "our work on relative motion." He also relied heavily on Mileva for emotional support at a critical time in his life. "Without you I lack self-confidence, pleasure in work . . . without you my life is no life." Einstein married Mileva in defiance of very strong opposition from his parents. She wasn't beautiful, she was older, she walked with a limp and she wasn't Jewish. Yet, Einstein was magnetically drawn to her independence, strength and formidable intellect during the most creative period of his entire life. As Einstein's reputation and adulation surged so did his womanizing. Einstein's conduct in ending their marriage was so brutal that it dismayed even their closest friends and came perilously close to destroying Mileva. Although Einstein resisted, the divorce decree awarded future Nobel Prize money to Mileva as her property. It represented a symbolic measure of recognition for her contributions to Einstein's scientific achievements. Despite their bitter divorce, Einstein sought the comfort of her company. While sometimes touchingly considerate, Einstein was vindictive and brutal when challenged or hurt. A true understanding of Einstein as both a man and a genius, is impossible without a detailed study of the woman who loved Einstein so deeply with such an emotional and intellectual bond that it bore a very rare fruit. It changed our view of the universe. "This biography is assuredly the first authoritative study of Einstein's first wife, Mileva Maric-Einstein. The author, Professor Milentijevic, has succeeded in bringing alive in magisterial and dramatic fashion the tragic course of Mileva's life. Professor Milentijevic's scrupulous use of sources, in particular, the recently opened family letters at the Hebrew University, give a unique and powerful dimension to the work, which is presented with genuine insight but without pathos." Professor Dr. Robert Schulmann Former Director of the Einstein Papers Project and Editor of "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein" "Mileva Maric Einstein's story is an extremely important contribution not just to understand the importance of her personal life with Albert Einstein, but also to illuminate the larger historical context of the diminished lives of even the most brilliant of women. Like Rosalind Franklin whose research on DNA was largely credited to Francis Crick and James Watson, and like Ada Lovelace whose algorithm became the basis for computer programming for which Charles Babbage took credit, Mileva Maric Einstein's crucial contributions to her husband's work have long been ignored. At last, Radmila Milentijevic's meticulously documented biography shines the light on facts that might otherwise have been obliterated. It is both a redemption and a call to action to value women's abilities in all fields of endeavor." Gloria Feldt Co-Founder and President "Take The Lead" Women's Leadership Parity Movement New York Times best-selling author of "No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power"

Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847395899
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 603

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NOW A MAJOR SERIES 'GENIUS' ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, PRODUCED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING GEOFFREY RUSH Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius. He was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days. His character, creativity and imagination were related, and they drove both his life and his science. In this marvellously clear and accessible narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered. Einstein's success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a worldview based on respect for free spirits and free individuals. All of which helped make Einstein into a rebel but with a reverence for the harmony of nature, one with just the right blend of imagination and wisdom to transform our understanding of the universe. This new biography, the first since all of Einstein's papers have become available, is the fullest picture yet of one of the key figures of the twentieth century. This is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius. Praise for EINSTEIN by Walter Isaacson:- 'YOU REALLY MUST READ THIS.' Sunday Times 'As pithy as Einstein himself.’ New Scientist ‘[A] brilliant biography, rich with newly available archival material.’ Literary Review ‘Beautifully written, it renders the physics understandable.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Isaacson is excellent at explaining the science. ' Daily Express