Mileva Marić

In 1901, Mileva became pregnant with famous physicist, Albert Einstein’s child. The daughter, often referred to as Lieserl, in the couple's letters, was born the following year. Whether Lieserl died or was abandoned and given for adoption, is still not known.

Marić got married to Einstein in 1903, at the city of Bern, Switzerland, because it was there that Einstein was employed by the 'Federal Office for Intellectual Property'.

In 1904, Hans Albert, the couple's first son was born, and the family lived in Bern for the next five years.

Mileva Marić was born to Miloš and Marija Ružić, in the municipality of Titel, belonging to present day Serbia, on December 19, 1875. She belonged to an influential family and had two younger siblings.

She started attending high school in the Serbian city of Novi Sad in 1886, but soon moved to the Sremska Mitrovica municipality. Four years later, she joined the 'Royal Serbian Grammar School', located in Šabac.

In 1891, Mileva's father got her admitted to the 'Royal Classical High School' in Zagreb, which was a school meant only for boys. The following year, she graduated from there, and joined tenth grade.

The brilliant student was allowed to pursue Physics on a special request in 1894, and her scores in the subject were par excellence. The same year, she became sick and moved to Switzerland. There she pursued her higher studies from the 'Girls High School' in Zurich.

After graduating high school, the young lady started attending the 'University of Zurich' for a course in medicine. After studying for a semester, she dropped out and enrolled herself into the 'Zurich Polytechnic', which later came to be known as 'Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule' ('ETH').

At 'ETH', she pursued a diploma course in teaching, with a specialization in Physics and Mathematics. She was the only woman in the class of six students, which included ‘Nobel Prize’ winner Albert Einstein, and the two classmates soon became good friends.

In October, 1896, Marić moved to the German city of Heidelberg, and joined the 'Heidelberg University' to pursue further studies in Mathematics and Physics.

After the end of the semester, she returned to Zurich in 1898 and resumed classes at the 'Zurich Polytechnic'. She studied astronomy, theoretical physics, experimental physics, applied physics, differential and integral calculus, geometry and mechanics.

This exceptional physics student was believed to have made a major contribution to Albert Einstein ‘Nobel Prize’ winning work. However, after extensive research, and first-hand accounts of her son, this speculation has been disproved, though some research scholars still claim the story’s credibility