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by wickedwillie on February 18th, 2005

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What happened to Albert Einstein's brain after he died?

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  • by wickedwillie on February 19th, 2005

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    Although Einstein's body was cremated, his brain was saved. Einstein died at 1:15 am on April 18, 1955 at Princeton Hospital in New Jersey. Later that morning, Princeton Hospital pathologist Dr. Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy on Einstein and removed Einstein's brain. Harvey cut the brain into 240 pieces. He was very protective of the brain and kept it jars at his house.

    In the mid 1970s, Steven Levy, a reporter for the New Jersey Monthly, hopped into his car and set out to find Einstein’s brain. Levy published his story in 1978 and part of it can be found on the Internet. Levy discovered that Einstein’s brain was still with Dr. Harvey who was now in Wichita, Kansas. The brain was in two mason jars in a cardboard box that was marked with the words "Costa Cider". Most of the brain, except for the cerebellum and parts of the cerebral cortex, had been sectioned (sliced).

    Over the years, Harvey gave several pieces of the brain to different researchers including Dr. Marian Diamond (UC Berkeley), Dr. Britt Anderson (University of Alabama) and Dr. Sandra Witelson (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario). Harvey moved around the country and he always brought the brain with him. Eventually, Harvey moved back to New Jersey. In 1996, Harvey brought the remaining pieces of Einstein's brain to Dr. Elliot Krauss, chief pathologist at Princeton Hospital.

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  • by Anonymous on October 28th, 2009

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    Yall have it wrong. Some guy had crazy monkey sex with Einsteins brain

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  • by Einstein on September 30th, 2008

    Einstein

    Somebody already eaten the brain in order to become as clever as Einstein.

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  • by Mushen on June 29th, 2007

    Mushen

    It shrivelled up like a prune.

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  • by popong on June 29th, 2007

    popong

    yeah thats right...is it true that einstein brain is more larger than the brain of a normal human being

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  • by AB-Rich on February 18th, 2005

    AB-Rich

    According to an Einstein biography by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html):

    Einstein was cremated at Trenton, New Jersey at 4 pm on 18 April 1955 (the day of his death). His ashes were scattered at an undisclosed place.

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