![]() ![]() Increasingly lonely and isolated, she became prey to her own crippling insecurities, which plunged her into the deepest depressions. But as Albert ascended into the scientific stratosphere, Mileva was relegated to domestic duties. In the beginning, theirs was a relationship of shared studies, experiments, ideas and mutual inspiration. But she had the added misfortune of falling in love with the most celebrated genius of the modern era, Albert Einstein. A brilliant woman born in the late 19th century, her aspiration to be a physicist was always going to the thwarted by gender discrimination. “Few stories in the history of science are as heartbreaking ,” claimed the New Scientist. ![]() On this day in 1948, Mileva Maric died alone and unknown in Zurich aged seventy-two. ![]()
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