Re: Mileva Maric Einstein
From: Rene Tschaggelar (none_at_none.net)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:04:05 +0200
Perfectly Innocent wrote:
> The PBS presentation of *Einstein's Wife* consists of a one-hour
> documentary film and companion Web site. These tandem features
> explore the historical facts of Mileva Maric's life, and examine her
> dual roles as Albert Einstein's domestic and scientific partner. Given
> these facts, each observer must then decide, on their own, whether or
> not Einstein robbed Maric of her due.
>
> Did Mileva collaborate with Albert on the scientific papers of 1905?
> Study the evidence and decide. Take an online poll:
> http://www.pbs.org/opb/einsteinswife
>
> The timing of *Einstein's Wife* is the result of several events at the
> end of the past millennium. The West's first hint of Maric's existence
> came with a 1983 German translation of a Yugoslavian biography. Then
> the Princeton Press published the first of Einstein's 40,000 archived
> papers. By the early 1990s, there was open speculation that Maric was
> Einstein's intellectual collaborator. The debate remains open, in part
> because it appears that Einstein's executrix systematically destroyed
> potential evidence.
>
> I saw this film recently on the program Nova. It's powerful.
I did read her book a while ago.
She claims to have done the detail works on his ideas. For
which he is said to have given her the money of the nobel prize.
Yes, sure when your wife is mathematician, why not let her
do some calculations.
Well these calculations were checking for consistency with
the maxwell equations and such. Not trivial indeed.
Rene
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