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Kirsten Hacker’s response above to the question contains so many fallacies that it will be difficult to cover them all. But here goes:“She was a good student…” — Maric’s semester grades throughout the four-year Zurich Polytechnic course were at best moderate. She averaged around grade 4.3 on a scale 1-6.“She was accepted into a program for further study…” — No she wasn’t. She twice failed the final diploma exams to teach physics and mathematics in secondary school.“He wrote of how he couldn’t make progress or concentrate without her [1–4].”As the given quote indicates, he wrote that he preferred studying with her. But there are numerous letters that show he studied extra-curricular texts without her being present.“Near the end of her studies, she got kicked out of her program when she became pregnant in 1901.” — No she wasn’t. She first took (and failed) the final diploma exams in 1900. She was some three months pregnant when she retook (and failed) the exams a second time in 1901. There is no evidence that anyone other than Einstein knew she was pregnant at that time.In Albert's miracle year (1905), he published 5 groundbreaking papers…” – actually four – “commented on 21 scientific articles” – these were for the most part very brief summaries of their contents – “and submitted his thesis (which was on a topic closely related to Mileva's uncompleted thesis)” – Einstein’s doctoral thesis was on hydrodynamics and the determination of molecular size and Avogadro’s number, whereas Maric’s aborted doctoral thesis from 1901 was on heat conduction – “all while working 9 hours per day, 6 days per week at the patent office” – Einstein’s work at the patent office was not particularly onerous and he worked surreptitiously on his own ideas, while also having three knowledgeable colleagues to discuss them with, Paul Gruner, Josef Sauter, and Michele Besso in the years immediately before 1905.“She had a baby in mid-1904 and 4/5 papers were completed before the summer of 1905. Women of her class would have a nurse to help with a baby for the first year, giving her ample time to work on the papers.”On Einstein’s salary they could not afford a nurse, and anyway there is not a scrap of evidence that Maric worked on physics papers in those early years of their marriage. In 1906 she wrote to her close friend Helene Kaufler Savic: “The papers [my husband] has written are already mounting high” – not a hint that she had any involvement in their production.“After they had finished one of their 1905 papers, Albert laid in bed for two weeks while she obsessed over the details before mailing it to the journal. Peter Michelmore, Einstein, Profile of the Man, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1962.”This is nothing more than a figment of Michelmore’s imagination, as are a number of evident imaginative scenarios, with invented dialogue, throughout his book, which does not profess to be a scholarly work. The blog article by Pauline Gagnon you cite here repeats numerous other erroneous claims without any recourse to original, or at any rate, reliable sources.“Albert would say at parties, "I need my wife, she solves all of my mathematical problems for me." Desanka Trbuhović-Gjurić Mileva Marić Einstein: In Albert Einstein’s shadow): in Serbian, 1969, German, 1982, and French, 1991.”Again, you cite Pauline Gagnon, who relies heavily on Radmila Milentijevic (2015), who in turn cites Trbuhovic-Gjuric, who provides nothing but hearsay evidence from interested parties obtained some sixty years after the event, so-called “evidence” that would not stand up for one minute in a court of law. Nor in other ways – Maric failed her diploma exams with a poor grade in the mathematics component (theory of functions), while there was nothing in Einstein’s early papers that would have taxed his mathematical powers at that time.“Later, in 1908, when he was gaining fame and asked to give lectures on the 1905 papers, eight pages of Albert’s first lecture notes are in her handwriting.”No one knows why she wrote those. We do have Einstein’s full lecture notes for an elementary course in mechanics that he taught at Zurich University in 1909/10 and Maric’s eight pages closely follow Einstein’s early pages. What is this supposed to prove?“So is a letter [in Mileva’s handwriting] drafted in 1910 in reply to Max Planck who had sought Albert’s opinion. Both documents are kept in the Albert Einstein Archives (AEA) in Jerusalem.”As the Serbian historian of physics Stanislav Juznic has written (Krstic 2004, pp. 240-241), this rough draft contains numerous crossings-out and corrections (including the misspelling of “Planck” as “Plank”) and bears all the hallmarks of a dictated first draft of a response by Einstein to Planck’s request for comments on his own draft article. One has only to look at the paper in question (published in 1911) to see that only someone totally immersed in the subject matter, as was Einstein, could have commented on Planck’s draft paper. Not only is there not the least evidence that Maric would have been in such a position, we know that at that very time she was confessing to her friend Helene Kaufler Savic that “with that kind of fame [my husband] does not have much time left for his wife.” (Popovic 2003, 101-102)“Prior to their marriage, they wrote to each other about their work on a capillary paper which was published under Einstein’s name”Maric never wrote anything about capillarity in her surviving student letters to Einstein.“he also wrote to her of ‘our work on relative motion’.”Einstein wrote this isolated sentence in a letter when Maric was still a student and at a time when she was emotionally distressed because of the long periods in which Einstein was away from Zurich during 1901-1902 [Popovic 2003, p. 68 – “our upcoming parting is going to kill me”], and when he still had hopes of their working together on science when they were married. Elsewhere he wrote only about his ideas on motion relative to the ether, e.g., in December 1901: “I’m busily at work on an electrodynamics of moving bodies…”, and “I spent all afternoon at Kleiner’s in Zurich telling him my ideas about the electrodynamics of moving bodies… He advised me to publish my ideas…” (Popovic 2003, pp. 69, 71).“..but she didn't want her name on the papers or patents because…” – there’s not a scrap of evidence that this was the case, it’s nothing but evidence-free speculation."’We are but one stone,’ Mileva said, referring to their union.” – another piece of hearsay evidence obtained sixty years after the event. Trbuhovic-Gjuric does not even say from whom she obtained this alleged statement.“…as evidenced by Joffe’s description of an early version of their special relativity paper as authored by “Einstein-Marity”, a combination of their names which would commonly be used by a woman. This should not be discounted because name hyphenation was only very rarely used by a man [1, 4].”This is the biggest myth of all, and is not authenticated by giving citations to authors who have made no attempt to check original sources. Joffe did not write that the 1905 special relativity paper was “authored by ‘Einstein-Marity’.” See Stachel 2005, pp. liv-lxiii.“He completed general relativity in 1915 without Mileva… Since the evidence shows that Mileva had helped Albert with his schoolwork, with writing his 1905 papers, and with writing his 1908–1910 lecture notes and correspondences, she might have helped him with 1912 versions of general relativity, a version which had laid the foundations and completed half of the derivation of the field equations. One can speculate that Mileva had left him with threads…”I’ve already dealt with several fallacies here, and the suggestion about Maric having some hand in the development of general relativity doesn’t bear examination. (Maric to Helene Kaufler Savic in 1912: “[My husband] is tirelessly working on his problems… I must confess that we are unimportant to him.”)I’ll skip the uninformed comments on Einstein’s later work that follow and just deal with the following:“One common argument against the Maric authorship thesis is that he wrote about physics to her and to his friends all of the time and she didn’t. Firstly, in the collection of Einstein/Maric love letters, 43 are from Albert and 10 are from Mileva, suggesting that many of hers have gone missing [3]”. – Einstein was not the kind of person to keep letters he received at that time (see his letter dated 17 December 1901). If there had been anything in Maric’s missing letters on physics topics we can be sure he would have commented on them, given his ongoing enthusiasm for anything to do with extra-curricular physics at that time.“Several examples of what she wrote about her work to her friends and family are provided in [3] which have been regularly neglected or dismissed by Einstein cheerleaders…”There is not a single example of Maric’s writing about her supposed work on physics in the source you give [3], and anyway, as I’ve already written, the author Pauline Gagnon makes no attempt to check original sources, or question the reliability of the author from whom she uncritically quotes.You write of note [3]: “A 2016 blog post which draws from Serbian sources which were not typically available to the non-Serbian biographers. The Forgotten Life of Einstein's First Wife”.There is nothing in that blog post that alludes to material not available to non-Serbians. The only possible source to which this can be referring is Trbuhovic-Gjuric’s 1969 biography of Maric, and that has been translated into German, probably by the author herself (Trbuhovic-Gjuric 1988).

The psychological effect is that you are a very special person, because you are able just to walk into this extraordinary space, without getting permission from any nobleman, lord, or priest. In about 2006 or 2007, I wrote an imagined, long conversation between a girl and a boy, each attending the Washington National Cathedral schools, who meet in the Cathedral. During their conversation, they wander through the Cathedral and its grounds, and every moment in the conversation relates to what they see in each of the places they are.I made many visits to the Cathedral to write this, being in each place, and initially thought of it as a performed experience: two performers having the conversation, in those places, while a small audience follows them around; a third performer, the “Verger,” leads the audience around.However, while the conversation purports to last only about an hour, in reality, it would take about five hours to complete from start to finish. And the Washington Cathedral officials have shown no interest in drawing any attention to the work; perhaps just lack of talent, but more flattering to me, perhaps there are elements in it that officials find discomforting. Anyone interested in this may find it under the title “Merian Validus” on amazon kindle.The Gothic architectural style certainly has had a powerful psychological effect on me - as I will document in the rest of this answer.The extraordinarily high ceiling, apparently floating as if by magic, due to the walls being frames for beautiful windows, makes you feel that you are in a house that God himself would find worthy to reside within.Of course, Christianity does not include in its theology that God actually lives in a particular place - as was the case in many ancient religions. But if God did “reside” in a place, this is the place that God would find worthy and satisfying to choose.And if you live beside a Gothic cathedral, you can go inside it whenever you like - which makes you feel very special.I speak from early and life-long personal experience of America’s greatest Gothic-style cathedral, the Washington National Cathedral (construction begun in 1907). I was baptized in the “Children’s Chapel” there (though of course I do not remember this, I was only 6 months old). Here is the certificate:My father had graduated the Cathedral School for Boys, St. Albans, in 1950, and 1949–1950 had been the first year in which Charles Martin had been headmaster and Cathedral “Canon.” My father had been an acolyte in the Cathedral, and was “Senior Prefect” 1949–1950, working with new headmaster Canon Martin to orient him to the school. Thus Canon Martin was happy to officiate at the baptism of my father’s first child (me).Then, from 9th through 12th grades (“3rd form” through “6th Form”) I attended St. Albans, 1969–1973 - under the same headmaster, Canon Charles Martin, who signed this baptism certificate. For the first three years, I was a boarding student, living right next to the Cathedral, which was still under construction. The Western towers were not yet finished, and the surrounding grounds were full of the stone-sculpture workshops, with gargoyle heads and saints’ heads set about on the ground, awaiting the moment of installation that might be years away.St. Albans students had many services in the Cathedral, which I experienced, and because I was a boarder 1969–1972, I experienced evening services and events that only boarders went to.The music-master sometimes took boarders who wished into the Great Choir to listen while he practiced and played the organ. Here is a photo in the Great Choir - I would sit of an evening in the benches along one or the other side, with just a couple of other boarders, while the music-master played the organ. Above the chandeliers, at the level of the stained-glass windows, you can just make-out the darkness of arched openings; this is an upper passageway, where I used to walk around.My first two years in the dormitory, I had windows looking out at the Cathedral.I was able to wander into the Cathedral, and around inside it, pretty much at will. I saw it and was around it in spring with all the flowering trees, and in winter, covered with snows. When I was feeling moody or meditative, I would go into it and choose anyplace I wanted, to sit and think.Our graduation ceremony was in the Cathedral, and my class of 1973 was the first that was able to exit the Cathedral in procession down the central Nave and out of the Western main side - because before that, the Western side was not finished enough for anyone to go through it. The classes from 1909 through 1972 had to exit out of the southern transept.Thus, I had an intimate experience with this great building that was akin to the experience of the medieval peasants, who lived beside their Cathedral and attended services and events there throughout the year.Moreover, I experienced the Cathedral not as some “found object” but as a thing being created by the people of my time - because it was still under construction while I was there. It was something I - or more precisely, my people - was making. It was our production - not something that existed before I was born, made by who knows, at some unknown prior time.This is how the medieval people experienced their cathedrals for the first hundred, two hundred, or more years.Below is the Cathedral when my father graduated in 1950. The central tower has not yet even started construction, and the South Transept has no roof and not even all its walls:Below is the Cathedral in about 1965, four years before I arrived. The central tower is finished, and the South Transept, and work is beginning on the Nave, but most of the Nave is just open ground, a resting-lot for carved stones. At center bottom is the Cathedral Library, already finished:Below is the Cathedral in 1969, 1970, and 1971, my first two years at St. Albans, while being a boarding student living just to the right of these photos, with windows looking out to the Cathedral:At the same time, of course, there were many other things going on in our society. 1969–1970 was a time of great anti-war demonstrations in Washington. Below, a photo of October 15, 1969, the “National Moratorium” demonstrations across the U.S., as occurred in Washington:And month later there was a “Moratorium” specifically on Washington, November 15, 1969:The Cathedral was a part of these November 15, 1969, demonstrations. Below, a photo of folksinger Pete Seeger, beside the pulpit in the Great Crossing, at the entrance to the Great Choir, singing “Give Peace a Chance,” Beatle member John Lennon’s first single, released just four months earlier, in July 1969:And there was the space program going on. On May 11, 1971, I was on the grounds of the Kennedy Space Center as the Saturn V rocket with Apollo 15 was “rolled out” from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch-pad:And here is what Apollo 15 carried: the first “Moon rover:”The reason I was at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral that day was to watch from the deck of a destroyer my father’s missile submarine launch test-firings of the new “Poseidon” missile. Below are some of my photos I took of the Apollo 15 rocket on that day:And below, on the same roll of film, some photos of the submarine. My father, the submarine commander, is on deck in khaki with white shoes, with another khaki officer to the left, and standing in front of a sailor in orange life-vest. The super-tall mast is for test-missile telemetry:Below, two shots of the two missile-launchings. This is how the beginning of a nuclear war would look. To the left of the flame you can barely make-out the telemetry mast, in orange:These two test-missiles, launched off Florida, would land thousands of miles away to the southeast, in the ocean off South America.When you are a personal witness to the launching of nuclear missiles, and then go back to live beside a Gothic cathedral, the importance of faith, morals, and the existence of a life after death take on heightened importance - which a Gothic cathedral symbolizes.This is how I, my father, and mother looked at the time of these launchings, and of the demonstrations, and of the Cathedral construction. We are attending the commissioning of a destroyer escort, the Patterson, DE 1061 (later FF 1061) named for one of my ancestors, in March 1970:Thus I saw both a great cathedral, a Saturn V Apollo mission, and a nuclear submarine missile launch all “under construction” at the same time, in the midst of the turmoil of demonstrations against a very unpopular war.To me, the Cathedral construction, the Apollo moon missions, and the nuclear powered submarines with nuclear-armed missiles, were simultaneous, energetic projects of great ambition, being done by the people of my own time.Below is the Cathedral at the time of my graduation in 1973. You can see how it is possible to exit through the West side, though we walked under open skies for part of the way. There are seven flying buttresses along the Nave:And here is what I looked like in spring 1973, in my graduation photo - quite a change in just three years from spring 1970 (photo credit Studio of Harris & Ewing):Below, the Cathedral when my next-youngest brother graduated in 1974. The Western side has made progress, and the stone framework of the Rose Window is largely in-place under its arch:It would take almost another two years, until 1976, for the Nave to be sufficiently completed as to receive a formal dedication on April 17, 1976, including unveiling of the West Rose Window:This was followed on July 8, 1976, by a dedication ceremony including Queen Elizabeth II (in Washington on a State visit) and President Ford. Here is the Queen’s visit-schedule that day:[I note that the assertion found all over the internet that President Carter and Queen Elizabeth II dedicated the Rose Window in 1977 appears to be completely false, a mix-up of President Carter for President Ford, followed by a change in the year, to be a year when Carter was President. I can find no trace of a month or day for this purported 1977 dedication; the lists of Queen Elizabeth’s visits, State visits or otherwise, have no trips to the U.S. in 1977; the chronology of events screen-shotted above, from the Cathedral’s own history-book, has no such event; and while Carter did meet Queen Elizabeth in May, 1977, he was the visitor and she was the hostess: they met in London, not Washington. There was only one President & Queen dedication, not two, and it was Ford in 1976 not Carter in 1977. Now, back to our story:]Below, the Cathedral when my youngest brother graduated in 1977. The West Side has risen to roof-height:At about this time, my father hosted two college-age visitors from France (he was preparing to become U.S. Naval Attache to Paris, and thus immersing himself in French culture and language) and took them on a driving-trip around Washington. I tagged along.When we came to the Washington National Cathedral, the comment by our French visitors was: “too new.”Yes, to them, for whom their cathedrals were hundreds of years old before they were born, a “proper” cathedral ought to look and to be very old, with an accumulated history of stories and events to accompany the aging of the stones.But to the peasants and tradesmen alive when the cathedrals were built, those cathedrals were new. They and their descendants would, by living with it and in it, be the ones who made the stories that would accumulate around the histories of the cathedrals.Thus, my experience of the Cathedral was as it was to those peasants and tradesmen: this was new, and fresh, and exciting, and it was we who were making it, as one of the many activities going on in our times.Below, the Cathedral 15 years after I graduated - the Western Towers still not finished:Below, the Cathedral 17 years after I graduated - finally done, in 1990. By this time, I had graduated MIT and had already had two careers: a brief one in architecture, followed by ten years as a producer of avant-garde theater; and was entering my third career, now back in Washington, in my last year at Georgetown Law:In September 1991 I would marry in the Cathedral. Below, in the third image, my mother in blue, with camera, is in front of the column, my father in uniform beside her, and my aunt Laura with camera beside him:In 2011 and in 2012, each of my children would graduate high school in the Cathedral (my son from St. Albans, my daughter from St. Andrews).The psychological effect of a Gothic cathedral is that the Christian faith is important, strong, and true.