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* Letters in which Einstein referred to " our " theory and " our " work.

John Stachel points out, that these letters were written in their student days, at least four years before the 1905 papers, and some of the instances in which Einstein used " our " in relation to scientific work refer to their diploma dissertations, for which they both chose the same topic ( experimental studies of heat conduction ), and that Einstein used " our " in rather general statements, while he invariably used " I " and " my " when he recounted specific ideas he was working on: " the letters to Marić show Einstein referring to his studies, his work on the electrodynamics of moving bodies over a dozen times ... as compared to one reference to our work on the problem of relative motion.

" In two cases where there are surviving letters from Marić in direct reply to ones from Einstein in which he had recounted his latest ideas, she gives no response at all.

Her letters, in contrast to Einstein's, contain only personal matters, or comments related to her Polytechnic coursework.

Stachel writes: " In her case we have no published papers, no letters with a serious scientific content, either to Einstein nor to anyone else ; nor any objective evidence of her supposed creative talents.

We do not even have hearsay accounts of conversations she had with anyone else that have a specific, scientific content, let alone claiming to report her ideas.