„Derartige kolossale Opfer ...“ Der Nobelpreis für Physik für das Jahr 1921 – 
was geschah mit dem Preisgeld?

Wolff, Barbara

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„Derartige kolossale Opfer ...“ Der Nobelpreis für Physik für das Jahr 1921 – was geschah mit dem Preisgeld?

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Wolff, B. (2019). „Derartige kolossale Opfer..“ Der Nobelpreis für Physik für das Jahr 1921 – was geschah mit dem Preisgeld?. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

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Four years prior to receiving the Nobel Prize, Albert Einstein pledged the prize money to his soon to be ex-wife Mileva to ensure her and their sons’ livelihood and to serve as an advance payment of the sons’ inheritance. With this money, Mileva Einstein bought three Zurich apartment houses in 1924 and in 1930. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, this investment plummeted in value. Thanks to Albert Einstein’s persistent financial efforts for over more than ten years, a small sum constituting the rest of the Nobel Prize capital was actually transferred to the sons, following Mileva’s death in 1948.