![]() ![]() “Why had I never heard of this woman? She and Einstein had the same physics education, and they were married during his most prolific period - 1905. ![]() “I started thinking: Here’s this woman who made this incredible ascent from the backwater of Eastern Europe, where it was actually illegal for girls to attend high school, to become one of the very first women at a university physics program in Europe,” Benedict says. The book dispensed with Maric in a couple of sentences. ![]() ![]() The idea for “The Other Einstein” (2016), about Mileva Maric, the Serbian mathematician and physicist who was Albert Einstein’s first wife, came to her while she was reading a children’s biography of Einstein with one of her sons. As a 24-year-old corporate lawyer at Skadden, Arps in New York City in the mid-1990s, Marie Benedict was often the only woman in a room full of men - an experience she has drawn on in her subsequent career as a writer of novels inspired by women whose achievements have been overlooked or underappreciated by history. ![]()
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