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The couple fell in love. Letters survive in which they put their affection into words, mixing
science with tenderness. Wrote Einstein: “How happy and proud I shall be when we both have
brought our work on relativity to a victorious conclusion.”

Albert Einstein and MilevaMaric fell in love and they exchanged love letters to express their
feelings. They used to write such kinds of letters where they used to mix science with their
feelings. At one instance, Einstein talked about his scientific invention and said that he would be
very proud on that day when they would finally conclude their paper on the theory of relativity.

In 1900, at the age of 21, Albert Einstein was a university graduate and unemployed.
In the year 1900, Albert Einstein was 21 years of age and he completed his graduation from the
University but was unemployed.

He worked as a teaching assistant, gave private lessons and finally secured a job in 1902 as a
technical expert in the patent office in Bern.

patent: a document which gives the rights of an invention to an inventor
From 1900 to 1902, Albert Einstein was working as a Teaching Assistant and gave private
lessons also. Finally, in 1902, he got a job in Bern. Bern is a city in Germany. He got the job of a
Technical Officer in a patentsoffice in Bern.

While he was supposedto be assessing other people’s inventions, Einsteinwas actually
developing his own ideas in secret.

Einstein was supposed to check the inventions done by other people and give them a patent. On
the other hand, secretly, he was making his own inventions too.

He is said to have jokingly called his desk drawer at work the “bureau of theoretical physics.”