In the letter, dated Sept. 19, 1946, a seemingly agonized Tyfanny admits to Einstein that she has left out a potentially damaging detail about herself. I forgot to tell you, in my last letter, that I was a girl. I mean I am a girl, the young scientist writes. I have always regretted this a great deal, but by now I have become more or less resigned to the fact. The physicists pithy response is a timeless lesson that bears repeating, all these decades later. I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind, the Nobel Prize winner replied. There is no reason for it.
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