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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 29341405" data-attributes="member: 562115">Yes.. The first wife. Serbian origin - Mileva Marić. It is said that she could have been behind Einstein's work. She herself was educated in Maths & Physics. There is a story that Einstein’s 1905 paper on light quanta, in which he provided an explanation for Philipp Lenard’s surprising experimental results on the photoelectric effect, originated from information that Marić gained when she studied under Lenard at Heidelberg University in 1897. However, the course that Marić took at Heidelberg University was heat theory and electrodynamics, and there is no reason to suppose that Lenard would have discussed his current researches on the photoelectric effect on such a course.  Some say that she would have helped Einstein in mathematics. Some of the Nobel Prize money was given to Marić, but it could have been because alimony has to be paid after the divorce.</blockquote>

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