The first wife got the nobel prize winnings. The second wife was his cousin and they were together till he died.
The second marriage was about convenience but they did have 2 sons together. He was not comfortable in crowds and she enjoyed it so it seems to have worked.
“The second marriage was about convenience but they did have 2 sons together.”
Albert and his second wife, Elsa, had no children together, but they did raise Elsa’s two daughters from her previous marriage. There was a claim many years ago from an elderly Czech physicist that he was the son of Elsa and Albert, but that he was switched at birth in the hospital to a woman whose son had died in childbirth. However, Elsa would have been 50 at the time - not a medical impossibility, but so highly unlikely that the story must be almost completely discounted by that fact alone.
“The second wife was his cousin and they were together till he died.”
Albert’s second wife died in 1936 at age 60. Einstein outlived her by about 20 years, and never remarried.