Mileva Marić (December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948; Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић) was one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe. She was Albert Einstein's fellow student at the Zurich Polytechnic, and later became his first wife.
Her influence on Einstein's early work is unclear, and the question of possible contributions she may have made to his Annus Mirabilis Papers is highly controversial.
On December 19, 1875, Mileva ...
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Mileva Marić (December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948; Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић) was one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe. She was Albert Einstein's fellow student at the Zurich Polytechnic, and later became his first wife.
Her influence on Einstein's early work is unclear, and the question of possible contributions she may have made to his Annus Mirabilis Papers is highly controversial.
On December 19, 1875, Mileva Marić was born into a wealthy family in Titel, in the province of Vojvodina (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today in the Republic of Serbia). She was the oldest of three children of Milos Maric (1846-1922) and Marija Ruzic - Maric (1847-1935). Shortly after her birth, her father ended his military career and took a job at the court in Ruma and later in Zagreb. She began her secondary education in 1886 at a high school for girls in Novi Sad, but changed the following year to a high school in Sremska Mitrovica. Beginning in 1890,...
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