In Albert's Shadow : The Life and Letters of Mileva Maric, Einstein's First Wife
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"A touching collection of letters from Einstein's first wife, Mileva Maric, to her closest friend... They provide a fascinating insight into her relationship with Einstein, from the intensity of first love to the mundane reality of married life and the realization that the bohemian student with whom she had fallen in love only had room in his heart for physics... They are memorable because they allow Mileva to tell her story in her own voice." -- Peter D. Smith, Times Literary Supplement
"Few stories in the history of science are as heartbreaking as that of Mileva Maric... Einstein scholars will comb [these letters] for their insights into the mind of Einstein during his earliest creative period. Others will be fascinated, and saddened, by the deteriorating relationship between Maric and Einstein. And Einstein emphatically does not come out of this well." -- Marcus Chown, New Scientist
"Einstein's first wife, no mean scientist herself, subordinated her career to bear his children in a short marriage... A fascinating read." -- Choice
"Appropriate for the United Nations-designated International Year of Physics which celebrates the centennial of Einstein's 'Miraculous Year' of 1905... pays tribute to a woman long overshadowed by the man she loved and married." -- Margaret Reilly, Association for Women in Science Magazine
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"Spanning forty years, the letters collected here by Milan Popovic from Mileva Einstein, née Maric, to her best friend Helene Savic are unusual in their range and frankness. They evoke with unparalleled immediacy the circles of family, colleagues, and friends within which Albert Einstein flourished, even as Mileva and her marriage to Albert foundered. The letters are also a mine of information about the status of European women with intellectual ambitions in this period and make an important contribution to our understanding of the scope and limitations of such ambitions. Popovic invaluably places the letters in a cultural and psychological context. His insights are a function not only of his personal relationship with the recipient of the letters but of his perceptiveness as a practicing psychoanalyst. This is a first-rate book that will appeal to a wide readership." -- Robert Schulmann, Editor of the Einstein Papers edition and former Director of the Einstein Papers Project
In Albert's Shadow : The Life and Letters of Mileva Maric, Einstein's First Wife
In Albert's Shadow: The Life and Letters of Mileva Maric, Einstein's First Wife,Milan Popovic,The Johns Hopkins University Press,080187856X,1875-1948,Biography & Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Correspondence,Einstein-Maric, Mileva,,Einstein-Mariāc, Mileva,,Kaufler, Helene,,Letters,Physicists,Physics,Scientists - General,Women,d. 1944
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