Genius is a designation tossed around too lightly in the modern age. And yet some understand it to describe the type of revolutionary thought that can lead to societal and cultural transformation. Not always — and not usually. History is awash in unsung geniuses whose fame was built in whole or part on others’ intellectual discoveries and strategies, men and women left out of history books or barely mentioned.
The first installment of National Geographic's “Genius” anthology, the one devoted to Albert Einstein, addresses this by gazing at Mileva Marić, the theoretical physicist’s first wife and intellectual muse.
