Q5.What traits made Eiinstein stand apart from his other classmates:
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Newly graduated, carrying his Gustav Kirchhoff texts and other physics books, Einstein arrived at the end of July 1900 for his family's summer vacation in Melchtal, a village nestled in the Swiss Alps. He was met at the train station by his mother and sister, who smothered him with kisses, and then all piled into a carriage for the ride up the mountain.
As they neared the hotel, Einstein and his sister got off to walk. Maja confided that she had not dared to discuss with their mother his relationship with Mileva Maric, known in the family as "the Dollie affair" after his nickname for her, and she asked him to "go easy on Mama". It was not in Einstein's nature, however, "to keep my big mouth shut", as he later put it in his letter to Maric about the scene, nor was it in his nature to protect Maric's feelings by sparing her all the dramatic details about what ensued.
He went to his mother's room and, after hearing about his exams [he had graduated from the Zurich Polytechnic with a 4.9 average, just enough to get his diploma], she asked him, "So, what will become of your Dollie now?"
Double take: Australian actor Geoffrey Rush portrays Albert Einstein in the National Geographic miniseries <i>Genius</I>. AP
"My wife," Einstein answered, trying to affect the same nonchalance that his mother had used in her question.
His mother, Einstein recalled, "threw herself on the bed, buried her head in the pillow, and wept like a child".
Einstein's father, Hermann, still working back in Milan at the family's electrical engineering company, weighed in with "a moralistic letter". The thrust of his parents' views – at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric – was that a wife was "a luxury" affordable only when a man was making a comfortable living.