Mileva

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Because I have a walking stick that could be this ones sister. I refer to her as “the maid”And I would be lost without its support its exactly half my height and a very stable crutch during the night when I am shuffling around half asleep. Its a relatively small light stick easy to manage, becomes and extension to my arm. Perfect to assist with going up and down the stairs, flicking on light switches, shooing the dogs out the way, and shutting the fridge door, etcetera.  I depend on its contribution .

 

And since this stick I am offering for sale is very similar I thought I would dedicate it to another person who’s support and contribution has been over looked. Mileva,  who like a steady walking stick in the night did help to provided support, guidance and focus for one of mankind’s most important discoveries. Yet hidden in the shadows like the 83 cm high walking stick in the corner of the room.

 

Mileva Maric was Serbian Physicist and Mathatician.  When she was 21 years of age Mileva was  admitted to the physics-mathematics section of the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich

 

She was the only woman in her group of students. She would have had to have been extraordinarily talented to overcome the restrictions on the admission of women back then in the year of 1896. She ended up marrying one of the other students in her group Albert Einstein.

 

Albert Einsteins own letters refer to the common research and work they were doing. Mileva is also quoted as telling a Serbian friend, "we finished some important work that will make my husband world famous” Then we will marry.

 

We will never know. How much Meliva contributed to Einsteins early works. But nobody made it clearer than Albert Einstein himself that they collaborated on the theory of special relativity when he wrote to Mileva on 27 March 1901: “How happy and proud I will be when the two of us together will have brought our work on relative motion to a victorious conclusion.” 

 

Albert received a Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity. The money from which he gave to Mileva….  Hers’s to Mileva.  !!