Albert Einstein

An Albert Einstein letter decrying the attentions of a Berlin socialite is among newly unsealed documents that promise to shed light on the private life of the 20th century's greatest physicist.Ethel Michanowski was involved with Einstein in the late 1920s and early 30s, going so far as to chase him to England, said Barbara Wolff of the Hebrew University's Albert Einstein Archives, which on Monday unsealed more than 3,500 pages of correspondence written between 1912 and 1955, the year Einstein died at age 76.Wolff described their relationship as an affair, but disclosed little about Michanowski other than that she was about 15 years younger than Einstein and was friendly with his stepdaughters.Among the other revelations: Einstein lost much of his Nobel Prize money in the Great Depression , was a more devoted father than previously thought and made no bones about discussing his romantic liaisons with his second wife.Einstein is known to have had a dozen lovers, two of whom he married, ...

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