Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) as he and the other members of the Manhattan Project race to develop the bomb by constructing the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico in the mid-1940s. It seems appropriate for the film, which tracks J. Underscoring the gravity of the bomb’s development, this Einstein has foregone his usual cheery demeanor and is instead wearing a grave frown. If you enjoyed I Was Anastasia and Beatriz Williams's books, you will love this captivating story.īe sure to check out Marie Benedict's other books about spectacular women behind influential men: Carnegie's Maid and The Only Woman in the Room.( JTA ) – “Oppenheimer,” the hotly-anticipated Christopher Nolan biopic about the Jewish nuclear physicist who developed the atomic bomb, will include another familiar Jewish face when it opens this summer: Albert Einstein.Ī new trailer for the drama, released this week, includes a brief glimpse of the scientist’s unmistakeable visage, as rendered by the Oscar-nominated Scottish character actor Tom Conti.
Marie Benedict brings to life the story of one of the most overlooked women of science. Was she simply a sounding board, computing the complex mathematical equations? Or did she contribute something more?Īn overlooked woman of science: The Other Einstein is a novel in the spirit of The Paris Wife and Mrs. In the world of physics, there's much debate over the role she played in forming the theory of special relativity, one of her husband's greatest works. The other Einstein: Mileva Maric was a fascinating, brilliant physicist in her own right. But could there be room for more than one genius in a marriage? Their life together was a partnership of heart and mind. Then, fellow student Albert Einstein took an interest in her and the world turned sideways. For Mileva, math was an easier path than marriage.
Her male peers could only try to keep up with her clever calculations. Her rise from the relative backwater of misogynistic Serbia to all-male university classrooms in Switzerland was nothing short of meteoric. Meet the Brilliant Physicist Hidden in Albert Einstein's ShadowĪ marriage of geniuses: In a time when most twenty-year-old women were wives, or trying to be, Mileva Maric was studying physics at an elite university in Zurich.
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