Einstein’s Nobel Award
Rita Lucas is not the first person to benefit from an ex-spouse’s Nobel Prize (“Economist’s Former Wife Cashes In on His Nobel Prize,” Oct. 21). In 1919, the wife of an obscure German professor then teaching in Switzerland had the foresight to include possible earnings from a Nobel Prize in her divorce settlement. Three years later, when Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for physics, he had to award all the prize money to his ex-wife.
PHILIP LaZEBNIK
Studio City
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