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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 . Biography. Besso was born in Riesbach from a family of Italian Jewish ( Sephardi) descent. [2] .
- Michele Besso, 25 May 1873
- 15 March 1955 (aged 81)
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...
- Sarah Pruitt
- 3 min
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 ...
This web exhibit from the American Institute of Physics explores the life of Albert Einstein from his self-imposed exile to his asounting theory of relativity. Einstein's closest friend, Michele Besso.
Nov 16, 2015 · Einstein met Grossmann and Besso at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School in Zurich 6 — later renamed the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule; ETH) —...
- Michel Janssen, Jürgen Renn
- 2015
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.
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.
