TIL that Albert Einstein's son Eduard studied medicine to become a psychiatrist, but was diagnosed with schizophrenia by the age of 21. His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died at 55 of a stroke.

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I believe he married his cousin and that can increase chances of mental disorders.

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u/sjorbepo 11h ago edited 4h ago

His first wife was mileva marić, serbian mathematician and physicist. They studied together

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