Re: Albert Einstein's Wife

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History have recorded great intellects in different areas of endeavour or works of life, some of this once have contributed immensely to life' well-being. This great individuals need to be honoured accordingly. Let me share the excerpt of the piece of my finding on Albert Einstein's Wife.

Sampling the opinions of people, some say she was as brilliant as Einstein, if not better. But wait a moment, what happened to her? Is anything the matter? Yes!

Do we all know and still remember Marie Currie? She was the first woman in history to win a Nobel Prize. The first person and only woman in history to win it twice as well as the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, physics and chemistry.

Mileva Marić-Einstein

Mileva Marić-Einstein was Albert Einstein's wife. Records had it that she was the only woman in the Physics Department at Zurich Polytechnic where Albert Einstein studied.

In fact, she was the only person to score higher than Einstein in Mathematics at the entrance exam. Such was her brilliance.

Now the question is; what was the difference between these two brilliant women? Why did one go down in history as a great scientist with two Nobel Prize to her honour and the other as just Albert Einstein's wife? The simple answer is:

Their husbands!

Albert Einstein got married to Mileva Marić-Einstein and she helped him in the writing of some of the most outstanding and profound papers that changed the narrative of science but surprisingly Einstein never deem it fit to cite her in his works.

But Maria Curie married Pierre Curie; a gentleman who understood what partnership is.

In 1903 the Nobel Prize committee wrote to Pierre Curie and informing him that he had won the Nobel Prize and stand to be honoured, Pierre in his reply asked them if his wife was also going to be honored, to his surprise he was told that only him and Henri Becquerel would be honored.

Pierre wrote the Nobel Prize committee and acknowledge the honor but reject it on the ground that his wife would not be honored.

According to him, he said the papers had a heavy input from his wife. The committee yielded to it and that led to Maric Currie becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.

Albert Einstein on the other hand was rather too consumed with his personal recognition that he didn't even consider to put Marie's name on his publications. This actions would later of course, cause controversy in the scientific world, even till today, there are debates on Maric's contributions.

Therefore, the right marriage will reinforce your legacy. The wrong marriage will diminish it.

Make sure your partner is your partner in the real and true sense of the word; someone who recognizes your contributions and will rather turn down a Nobel Prize than be honored without you.

Years later, Irene Joliot Curie, the eldest daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie; with her husband, Frédéric Joliot in 1935 became joint winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; 32 years after which Pierre and Maric did it together in the year 1903. She too married a supportive partner.

Can you be said to be a supportive husband or wife? Never underestimate the power of a mate.