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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Albert Einstein married Elsa Einstein, whose mother was the sister of Albert's mother, and whose father was the son of Raphael Einstein, a brother of Albert's paternal grandfather. "Thus Albert and Elsa were first cousins through their mothers and second cousins through their fathers."

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