Within a decade his first marriage, to Mileva Maric, a fellow math and science student, grew cold. In 1914, Einstein gave Maric a startling ultimatum, demanding that she "renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons," among other requests.
"That was one of the disappointing things about Einstein is how cold he was when he fell out of love with his first wife," Isaacson says. "But even though it's disappointing, it reminds us that the greatest of men are still made of flesh and blood."
Einstein later married his cousin, Elsa. Maric made out all right financially, as Einstein agreed to give her the substantial sum he earned from his Nobel Prize.
Biographer delves into life of Einstein
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