Bess meisler biography of albert einstein
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Michele Besso was a close friend of Albert Einstein during his days at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich.
Bess meisler biography of albert einstein
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 letters to Besso.
Besso was born into an Italian-Jewish family in May 1873 in Zurich.
He was an engineer, but he had a philosophical fascination with physics. Besso grew up in Italy and was brilliant in mathematics, although at 16, he was suspended from school when he complained that his mathematics teacher was unqualified for the job.
Besso was 23 years old when he met Einstein, who was 17, at the house of a woman named Selina Capriotti.
Capriotti was an older woman who often held parties at her place near the lake. Besso came to know that Einstein was a student of physics, while Einstein learned that Besso was working at an electrical