Einstein section: Cast of Real-Life Characters (in the order of their appearance)
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Hans Albert Einstein
Einstein’s firstborn son
Mileva Marić
Einstein’s first wife
Hermann Einstein
Einstein’s father
Pauline Einstein
Einstein’s mother
Max Talmud (Talmey)
Einstein’s childhood mentor
Jakob Einstein
Einstein’s uncle & childhood mentor
Heinrich Weber
Einstein’s physics professor
Michele Besso, Einstein’s
friend & sounding board
Marcel Grossmann
Einstein’s friend & collaborator
Hermann Minkowski
Einstein’s math professor
Max Planck
German physicist
Alfred Kleiner
Einstein’s thesis advisor
Maurice Solovine, Einstein’s friend, fellow member of “Olympia Academy”
Conrad Habicht, Einstein’s friend, fellow member of “Olympia Academy”
Paul Ehrenfest, Einstein’s friend & Austrian physicist
Marie Curie
French physicist & chemist
Elsa Einstein
Einstein’s second wife
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian physicist
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher
Leo Szilard
Hungarian-American physicist
Robert Noyce
Silicon pioneer,
co-founder of Fairchild, Intel
Helen Dukas
Einstein’s secretary
John Bardeen
Bell Labs scientist & co-inventor of transistor
Grant Gale
Noyce’s professor & mentor
William Shockley
Bell Labs scientist & co-inventor of transistor
Walter Brattain
Bell Labs scientist & co-inventor of transistor