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January 6, 2006 at 05:51:11

TODAY IN HISTORY: Gifted Scientist and Her Theories Emerge from Relative Obscurity

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Mileva died on 8/4/48 at the age of 72. Her obituary made no mention of her ex-husband. She was not mentioned in Einstein's biographies, and her role as Einstein's first wife and scientific collaborator was unknown to the public for decades.

Freida, Mileva and Albert's daughter-in-law, wrote a book about their lives that quoted from their love letters. The fiercely protective co-trustees of Albert's estate blocked its publication in 1958. In 1985, the Princeton Press initiated work on a 28-volume edition of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. The editor discovered Albert and Mileva's granddaughter, who provided him with her mother's manuscript and the help needed to locate the love letters. Finally, when the first volume was published in 1987, it included 51 of the Einsteins' letters and Mileva was no longer invisible.

The account given above is based on the information in the Einsteins' love letters and readily available dates and historical accounts, woven together with an understanding of human emotions.

Even today, Mileva often gets no mention in biographical accounts of her "Johnny." Below are a few sites that offer more information on Mileva Maric aka Mileva Einstein-Marity.

I was first introduced to Mileva Einstein through Jan Eliot's syndicated comic strip Stone Soup, on 11/20/05. http://www.stonesoupcartoons.com/ Reprints are available at http://www.amureprints.com

http://www.pbs.org/opb/einsteinswife/

http://compuserb.com/mileva02.htm

http://mileva-maric.iqnaut.net/

Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author and educator.
MerylAnnB@aol.com
www.creativespirit.net/MabArt

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author and educator who counts First Lady Dolley Payne Todd Madison as well as two signers of the Articles of Confederation among her ancestors. Mary Ball, mother of George Washington is in the ancestral lineage of Butler's great grandmother, Blanche Ball. Grateful to know that the blood of America's founding mothers and fathers runs in her veins, Butler has been newly filled with matriotism as a direct result of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Lest she appear too uppity, it should be revealed that she also has family ties to James Butler Hickok, better known as Wild Bill. Butler has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled enlightenment for the past two decades. A native of NYC, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006). They don't call quilts "comforters" for nothing! www.90minutequilts.com Butler was faculty advisor for "The Love for All Mankind/Anti-Apartheid Quilt" project at ENMU (1993), now in the collection of the Hon. Nelson Mandela. As Arts Advisor for the Center for Improving U.S.- Soviet Relations (CIUSSR) Baltimore, MD; her activities included the "First U.S.-Soviet Childrens' Peace Quilt Exchange" (1987-88), an historic project chronicled in the media of both countries. Citizen diplomacy trips to the U.S.S.R. in 1987 and 1988 included lectures and presentations to fashion designers, craftspeople and artists in Odessa, Moscow, Kiev and St.Petersburg, in which she focused on the topic of creating global peace through international art exchanges. Butler is the proud mother of a daughter and seven stepchildren (all grown), and a passel o' grand younguns. It is to these new generations that she dedicates her political activism. Archived articles www.opednews.com/author/author1820.html Older archived articles, from before May 2005 are here.,

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C. Angelica Perry

behind every man...

What a moving piece! I am going to tell all my women friends to read this and find out what we all should know ( and may have guessed from the pics of him?)

by C. Angelica Perry (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 6:53:53 PM

Allen Esterson

Historical claims must be based on solid evidence

Meryl Ann Butler writes:
"Even today, Mileva often gets no mention in biographical accounts of her 'Johnny'."
Has Ms Butler taken the trouble to examine a single Einstein biography to check if this statement is true? I possess numerous biographies of Einstein, and all of them without exception have information about Mileva Maric. This includes half a dozen published between 1948 and 1982.

Ms Butler also writes:
"In 1905, a paper with the theories, and with one name – Dollie's - on it, was completed. Somehow, by the time the paper was published, her name was replaced by her husband's."

Ms Butler does not seem to know too much about Einstein's publications. She writes of "a paper" with "the theories". What paper? What theories? Einstein published five papers in 1905. Leaving this aside, Ms Butler has embroidered the usual claim, which is that both Einstein's and Maric's names were on the three most celebrated of the 1905 papers. But there is not a scrap of evidence that this was the case; the claim depends on a tendentious misreading of the supposed evidence. See, e.g., Alberto A. Martinez, "Handling evidence in history: the case of Einstein's wife": http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=183

See also: http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=182

For a detailed refutation of the claims that Mileva Maric made substantive contributions to Einstein's 1905 papers, see: http://www.esterson.org/milevamaric.htm

by Allen Esterson (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 3:32:18 AM