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He was a close friend of Albert Einstein during his years at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, (today known as ETH Zurich) and then at the patent office in Bern, where he helped Einstein to get a job. Besso is credited with introducing Einstein to the works of Ernst Mach, the sceptical critic of physics who influenced Einstein's ...
- Michele Besso, 25 May 1873
- 15 March 1955 (aged 81)
Nov 13, 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. 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 ...
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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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...
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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 17, 2015 · Two friends from Einstein's student days — Marcel Grossmann and Michele Besso — were particularly important. Grossmann was a gifted mathematician and organized student who helped the more...
Nov 4, 2021 · It includes equations that led Einstein to paint his radical new picture of the universe. Apart from a manuscript held at the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Einstein-Besso Manuscript is the only surviving work detailing the genesis of general relativity.
