Einstein’s Wife    

Director: Nicola Woolmington
Running Time: 56 minutes   
Australia 2003

In 1896, Mileva Maric, a courageous young woman of exceptional intellect, entered the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and enrolled in theoretical physics. Only one other person did the same, the young Albert Einstein. 

Not only did she share his passions, she raised his children, corrected his calculations, translated his texts and prepared his lecture notes. Then that magical equation was published and almost overnight Mileva became invisible. Until now.

Geraldine Hilton has researched Mileva’s story for ten years and has used extraordinary primary source material as well as the remarkable contents of love letters written between Albert and Mileva, to rebuild this half life into a compelling story of a woman drowned by history.

The  story of love, marriage, science and sexual discrimination, casts new light on Einstein the man and the nature of scientific discovery and collaboration.

Screening:

27 October 9.30 p.m. Ozone Multiplex
28 October 7.45 p.m. Ruskin College