From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   Thomas Heger wrote:   
   > Am Sonntag000023, 23.11.2025 um 20:05 schrieb The Starmaker:   
   >> On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:12:20 +0100, Thomas Heger    
   >> wrote:   
   >>> His former wife looked nicer and was certainly smarter.   
      
   By contrast to Einstein, who apparently could afford to miss lectures,   
   (perhaps as a result of that) she did not pass her mathematics exam, though,   
   and never finished her degree.  When Einstein had graduated, and obtained   
   the position at the Patent Office, she had hoped that after a year Einstein   
   would get a promotion there, so that she could employ a nanny, and finally   
   finish her doctoral thesis.  He did not, and so she could not even then.   
   She held that against him, and his negligence of her and the children in   
   favor of his theoretical work, in combination with several affairs with   
   other women (including eventually his cousin when he visited Berlin),   
   eventually led to their divorce.   
      
   You can learn much of that when you too visit the Einstein exhibition at the   
   Historical Museum at Bern, near where I live.   
      
   >>> But I don't know, which part of Einstein's papers she had actually written.   
   >>   
   >> She co-authord the 1905 paper. How is it possible you don't know   
   >> that???   
      
   It is just a common myth that was propagated by some of Maric's relatives,   
   claiming that when Einstein said or wrote "our work" he meant more than that   
   she *at most* proofread the paper.   
      
   > I knew, of course, that Mileva Maric wrote some parts of that article.   
      
   There is no evidence of that.   
      
   > The reason to think so:   
   >   
   > Einstein wrote simply way too much in 1905 to be technically possible   
   > for a single person.   
      
   That he submitted all of this in 1905 does not mean that he started writing   
   it in 1905.  Also, the last of the Annus Mirabilis papers, in which he   
   derived the mass--energy equivalence, is rather short: it is only 3 pages.   
   (Which you would have known if you had actually read it.)   
      
   Finally, this is a specious argument.  A person who has thought for a long   
   time about these topics would be able to write them down within one year.   
   (For example, typically you have one semester for writing a bachelor's   
   thesis in Physics, during which you also still have to hear other lectures.)   
      
   > He wrote actually four groundbraking articles in 1905 alone, from which   
   > one won him a Nobel Price.   
      
   It's Nobel _Prize_, and actually he published a lot more during that year.   
   (As you can find out by searching the online archives of the "Annalen der   
   Physik", for example.)   
      
   > Besides of that and working fulltime at the Swiss patent office in Bern,   
      
   You are mistaken there.  He was *employed* there full-time, but he was able   
   to delegate much of his work there to his friend Michele Besso, who happily   
   did it for him instead to help him focus on his theories instead.  Einstein   
   had previously arranged for Besso to get basically the same job in the   
   Office as Besso and his wife were expecting their first child, and Besso was   
   in need of a good-paying job the same as Einstein was when Grossmann's   
   father arranged for him to be exployed at the Office.  One reason for   
   Einstein doing that was this altruistic; the other was more selfish: calling   
   Besso in a letter "the best sounding board in all of Europe", he wanted to   
   have Besso at this side to discuss his own ideas with Besso (as they did   
   when they studied together in Zürich).   
      
   > he also wrote 20 reviews for 'Annalen der Physik'.   
      
   He did not write *for* that (as if he was employed), but he wrote those   
   reviews and submitted them *to* that, where they were eventually published.   
   (Either you do not know that "Annalen der Physik" is a scientific journal,   
   or you do not know what a scientific journal is and how it works.  Which one   
   is it?)   
      
   > That's more than a person could possibly do, even if he had no familily   
   > to care for (as Einstein had).   
      
   Einstein did not really spend much time with his family in that year or in   
   general; he was mostly focused on his work, and let Maric look for the   
   children instead.  This was also expected of her by the social standards at   
   the time; that she would study or have a career of her own was very   
   uncommon, one other notable exception being Marie Curie.  (Even the   
   accomplished scientist Lise Meitner faced difficulties being seen as an   
   equal when working with Otto Hahn, 10 years later, notwithstanding that   
   eventually she also was a Jew in Nazi Germany.)   
      
   > So, my guess: 'Q' provided the papers and Einstein his smile.   
      
   :-D   
      
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