Context:
- In 1905, several articles bearing the name of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein appeared in a German physics journal, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalen_der_Physik. The most fateful among these, was a paper entitled Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper; von A. Einstein, Einstein's supposedly breakthrough paper on the "principle of relativity". Though it was perhaps submitted as coauthored by Mileva Einstein-Marity and Albert Einstein, or solely by Mileva Einstein-Marity, Albert's name appeared in the journal as the exclusive author of their work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Ioffe (Joffe) recounts that
the paper was signed "Einstein-Marity". "Marity" is hungarian spelling of Serbian "Maric", Mileva's maiden name. Joffe, who had seen
the original 1905 manuscript, is on record as stating, "For Physics, and especially for the Physics of my generation-
that of Einstein's contemporaries, Einstein's entrance into the arena of science is unforgettable. In 1905, three articles appeared in the 'Annalen der Physik', which began three very important branches of 20th Century Physics. Those were the theory of Brownian movement, the theory of the photoelectric effect and the theory of relativity. The author of these articles-an unknown person at that time, was a bureaucrat at the Patent Office in Bern, Einstein-Marity (Marity--the maiden name of his wife, which by Swiss custom is added to the husband's family name).". . .