Mileva Marić, better known as Mileva Marić-Einstein, was a Serbian physicist and Albert Einstein's first wife. A rigorous mind, she gained access to the most prestigious educational institutions : in an almost exclusively male academic environment, she was the fifth woman to study at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Promised to a brilliant career, her meeting with Einstein undermined her ambitions. Resilient and perseverant, she played a fundamental role in the development of the theory of relativity. Einstein gave her the reward of his Nobel Prize in Physics. How can we explain the ambiguity surrounding Mileva's influence on her husband's work ?
