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Michele Angelo Besso (Riesbach, 25 May 1873 – Geneva, 15 March 1955) was a Swiss-Italian engineer best known for working closely with Albert Einstein.
Nov 14, 2017 · 14 November 2017. Cataloguing the letters from Albert Einstein to his closest friend, Michele Besso, was a roller-coaster ride: intellectually exhilarating, funny, endearing — and with an unexpected conclusion.
Jun 23, 2017 · In a letter written near the end of his life to the family of his closest friend, Michele Besso, the great physicist shared poignant regrets about his two marriages and mused on the rarity of...
Albert Einstein and Michele Besso. Michele Besso was a close friend of Albert Einstein during his days at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich. Later, Einstein endorsed Besso for a position at the patent office in Bern, and eventually, the two worked there together and grew closer to each other.
Nov 16, 2015 · Marcel Grossmann (left) and Michele Besso (right), university friends of Albert Einstein (centre), both made important contributions to general relativity. Credit: Grossmann, Einstein:...
Einstein's closest friend, Michele Besso. Michele Besso with his bride Anna, 1898. Einstein tried out his radical new ideas in arguments with his unassuming friend, an "extraordinarily fine mind." You can EXIT to hear a talk ("Jottings of a Genius") on Besso's help to Einstein.
Einstein passed by the clock towers morning on his way home, a route he often took with his closest friend, Michele Besso. The two men regularly discussed science and philosophy—including the nature of time. After one such discussion, Einstein came to a sudden realization: Time is not absolute.
