When Albert Einstein cash in one’s chips in 1955 , Princeton pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey performed the autopsy . Against Einstein ’s wish , and without seeking permission from his family , Harvey preserved the brilliant physicist ’s brainand segment it into hundreds of fragile slices … for science .
https://gizmodo.com/the-stolen-preserved-and-eventually-cubed-brain-of-al-5836056
Now , more than five decennium later , a corner of 46 head slides has made its way to the wonderfully weirdMütter Museumof aesculapian crotchet in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , where it is now on display . The slide were donate by Dr. Lucy Rorke - Adams , senior neuropathologist at Children ’s Hospital Philadelphia .
According to Rorke - Adams :
I ’ve await at nous for [ over 50 years ] . I ’ve looked at brainpower in untried people , middle - senior mass , and old people . Einstein ’s psyche is that of a immature person . It ’s really remarkable ; it does not show any of the change that we associate with age .
Click here to watch an unboxing of Einstein ’s segmented Charles Grey matter .
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