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Mileva Maric
Mileva Maric
Wisdom stands for - Mileva Maric, first wife of Albert Einstein
Born in 1875 in Titel, Vojvodina, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and
now a province of Serbia, Marić endured a shaky road as a girl wishing to study
physics because education beyond four years of elementary school was reserved
for men only. Seeing her potential, her father, Milos, sent her across the border
where girls had the same educational rights as boys. Milos petitioned for Marić to
be accepted into the all-male Royal Classical Gymnasium. She was accepted and
became one of the first women to sit in a high school physics class alongside her
male peers. At the time, physics had not produced many female names.
Eventually, she made it to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich where she was,
quite unsurprisingly, the only woman in her class. Her presence at the university
was unusual. In fact, it was here that she met her future husband, Einstein.
She would have had to have been extraordinarily talented to overcome the
restrictions on the admission of women. She and Einstein became close
friends quite soon. In October Marić went to Heidelberg to study at Heidelberg