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She is portrayed quite well in the recent National Geographic series about Einstein's life, "Genius".

Well worth watching. Mileva was a talented physicist and mathematician, contributed significantly to Einstein's early success, gave him three children and Albert dumped her for his cousin.

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Like many people, they had a relationship that became bad and they divorced. He is reported to have had numerous extramarital affairs, also. This article is 24 years old https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/06/arts/dark-side-of-einstei... - all of this is well-known.

He supported Mileva and the children from that marriage throughout his life. Everybody has flaws.

Yep, all of that is in the series too.

History has largely forgotten her, these days she would have gotten far more credit for her contributions to their scientific work.

They also based the series (mostly) off of the book Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. It's worth a read.

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