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25 May 1873. Died. 15 March 1955. (1955-03-15) (aged 81) Michele Angelo Besso ( Riesbach, 25 May 1873 – Geneva, 15 March 1955) was a Swiss-Italian engineer [1] best known for working closely with Albert Einstein .
- Michele Besso, 25 May 1873
- 15 March 1955 (aged 81)
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. Michele Besso and Einstein first met as students in Zurich in the late 1890s, and their friendship was cemented during their time working together in ...
Jun 23, 2017 · Einstein and Michele Besso first met as students in Zurich in the late 1890s, and later became close friends while working together at the Swiss federal patent office in Bern. In 1905, when he...
- Sarah Pruitt
- 3 min
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.
Jul 1, 2005 · Albert Einstein to Michele Besso. Translated and annotated by Bertram Schwarzschild Einstein writes to Besso, his close friend since 1897, six months after completing the general theory of relativity and a few days after the death, at age 42, of Karl Schwarzschild, who found the first exact solutions of the theory’s field equations.
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Oct 11, 2005 · One day around May of 1905, Einstein went to visit his good friend Michele Besso, who also worked at the patent office, and laid out the dimensions of the problem that had puzzled him for a...
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.
