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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. Biography [ edit ] 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. ... Albert Jr. and ...
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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. The warmth and openness of their friendship were captured in Einstein’s ...
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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. Return to Great Works II.
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.
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 ...
Feb 19, 1989 · The New Yorker, February 27, 1989 P. 86. A CRITIC AT LARGE about the correspondence between Albert Einstein & his friend Michele Besso, who worked with him in the Swiss Federal Patent Office, as a ...
