Which brings up all sorts of questions:ġ. It's a hefty lie, and while fiction, even its lies require justification. He had the academic title and thus took the work and all the credit, even the ensuing Nobel Prize.īenedict states in the Afterward that there is no proof of any sort of role Mileva may have taken on in Albert's research, but why not take the supposition to its ultimate possibility - Albert stole her ideas. Benedict writes into her story that, while they collaborated on a number of papers, Albert stole Mileva's ideas, that the theory of special relativity was hers. There is truly nothing worse for someone who spends her life working on theory and discovering new aspects of the world to have recognition of said work stolen. Some posit she was a collaborator and/or the mathematical brains behind his theories, including the theory of special relativity.Īnd it is at exactly that juncture - Mileva's role in Albert's work - that Benedict begins to dance on the boundaries of ethics, especially for an academic. They don't know for certain what role Mileva played in Albert's academic work. She disappears from Mileva's life within the first two years after her birth.
Historians aren't even sure what happened to their first child, a daughter, Lieserl. Many of the facts about Mileva's life are lost to history. This fictional account begins when Mileva travels to Zurich to begin university, and ends with the couple's divorce. While Albert managed to pass the rigorous exams and earn his PhD, Mileva got pregnant with their first child, out of wedlock (early 1900s), flunked her exams, twice, thus never completing her degree.
Accounts vary as to whether she actually tutored him to help him get into the school, or was "just" his love interest. Maric was a brilliant physicist who met Albert while they were both physics students at university in Zurich. The Other Einstein is an historical tale told around Albert Einstein's first, wife, Mileva Maric. Given the current climate in the United States, maybe it's a dilemma worth revisiting, if for no other reason than to foster healthy dialogue. At the same time, the reason I have such reservations is based in a dilemma all authors at one time or another face - ethical boundaries to truth stretching. Reviewing it gives the work press (teeny tiny press, but press). I've got serious reservations about the story told in these pages. To review or not to review - The Other Einstein.
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