Mileva Marić was born in Serbia, to wealthy parents, and was the eldest of three children in the family. As a child, she showed a lot of promise and was educated at some of the finest schools in Serbia. She pursued her education from 'Royal Serbian Grammar School' and even the all-boys 'Royal Classical High School', after a special request made by her father had been granted. Excelling in subjects like mathematics and physics, the young student moved to Zurich, and after finishing high school she enrolled in a teaching diploma course at the 'Zurich Polytechnic'. Amongst five of her classmates, she became close to the 'Nobel Prize' winning physicist Albert Einstein. She attended physics and maths classes for a short semester at the 'Heidelberg University' in Germany, and returned to Zurich to complete her diploma. Though she was an exceptional learner, she could not clear her final examinations at the first attempt. The following year, she gave her examinations another try but failed once again. At this juncture, she gave up hope, and stopped working on a potential Ph.D. thesis paper. Subsequently, she got married to Einstein, took care of family, and got separated after a long marriage. Even though she made no major contribution to the field of Physics, she has been posthumously commemorated in Serbia and Zurich