Marie Benedict

She wanted to become a physicist when women were expected to only want to get married. She studied physics and mathematics at the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich when women had to obtain special permission to study. Among her classmates were only men, and they were all surprised when it turned out that she understood the subject. The teachers looked down on her, and she constantly doubted herself, but still moved forward, supported only by her parents and friends. She firmly believed that science was her calling and dreamed of uncovering the Divine laws of the universe. Then she married her classmate Albert Einstein, who promised her that their marriage would be an equal union of minds and hearts. And all her dreams went up in smoke.
Her name was Mileva Marić, known to her friends as Mica. She was a talented mathematician, and to this day, scientists argue about how much she contributed to the creation of the special theory of relativity. Marie Benedict, the author of numerous bestsellers translated into thirty languages, wrote a novel about Mica titled “The Other Einstein” — the story of a woman who could have shone but got lost in the brilliance of another genius simply because she was a woman.