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Is there any evidence that Mileva Marić (first wife of Albert Einstein) had the knowledge to build an atomic bomb herself?
according to the show, only the two of them know how to build the atomic bomb at this point
This is historical nonsense. Several physicists realised that an atomic bomb might be possible shortly ...
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Which of these quotes are actually Einstein's (if any)?
Looking over the various discussions of these and other similar quotes, leads to the conclusion that Einstein probably did not say any of these, exactly. I have found no direct attribution to Einstein ...
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Einstein's World War IV quote?
Einstein is recorded by Wikiquote as saying this in an interview with Liberal Judaism 16 (April-May 1949), which was presumably a magazine. At the time, the USA was the only power with nuclear weapons....
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Did Einstein steal another mathematician's work?
He did work in a patent bureau.
He did not steal his achievements there: Theoretical physics is published in journals, not patented.
For sure not the whole structure of General and Special Relativity ...
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Did Albert Einstein really receive this rejection letter from the University of Bern?
Yes, it is obviously a very badly made fake (bolder than brass).
As already mentioned above the University of Bern would have answered in German and not in English. - Before World War I more ...
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