Mileva Marić

Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)

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Lived 1875–1948, aged 73
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    1875–1948
    Aged 73
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Updated 2026-06-21

The only woman in Einstein's physics cohort at Zurich Polytechnic, and his first wife — the question of whether her hand shaped the 1905 papers that remade physics has never quite closed.

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Mileva Marić was a Serbian mathematician who entered Zurich Polytechnic in the 1890s as the sole woman among Einstein's classmates. The two became study colleagues, then lovers. In 1902 they had a daughter, Lieserl, who likely died of scarlet fever at eighteen months. They married in 1903 and had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard. For sixteen years she was Einstein's wife during the years he upended physics, and debate over whether she contributed to his early work — especially the annus mirabilis papers — has persisted long past their 1919 divorce.

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