In Albert’s Shadow by Mileva Marić, edited by Milan Popović, Johns Hopkins University Press, £18.50/$24.95, ISBN 080187856X Reviewed by Marcus Chown
FEW stories in history of science are as heartbreaking as that of Mileva Marić. As a woman born in the late 19th century, her aspiration to be a physicist was always going to the thwarted. But she had the added misfortune of falling in love with Albert Einstein.
In the beginning he was just a man of his time, leaving her to deal with children and domestic duties while he pursued his own interests. But, as he ascended into…
