Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955 due to aneurism. There is no grave, and as he wished, he was cremated and his ashes scattered.
However, his eyes and brain were stolen by a man named Thomas Harvey. He was the pathologist who was supposed to determine the cause of death through an autopsy immediately after Einstein's death.
He decided to keep the brain, sawed the skull open, took out the brain and also the eyes. He handed the latter over to Henry Abrams, Einstein's ophthalmologist. And the eyes are still in a safe in New York today.
Harvey now had a unique brain, but no job. He now made his way as a factory worker and tried with all his might to find experts who could examine Einstein's brain.
He cut Einstein's brain into small cubes, 240 pieces, each one cubic centimeter in size.About a sixth of it was a gift to Einstein's family doctor. The other cubes were placed in mason jars and filled up with formalin.
And then they stood in the basement like normal preserves.Then Harvey tried to get scientists interested in his project, but failed.Only reporters who had learned what he had done stood in line with him.And Harvey said over decades that the results would be available in 1–2 years .
When Harvey left his wife and moved out, he forgot the "canned". He only got it when his wife threatened to dispose of it.Now it was in a cider box in Kansas. Under a beer cooler.In 1985, a researcher was found who was ready to investigate the canned food.
Your results were rather unspectacular.In 1996 Harvey found another researcher who was interested in Einstein's brain. It was the Canadian neuroscientist Sandra Witelson. Harvey gave her 50 brain throws, about a fifth of the original brain mass, and soon afterwards published new theories about the anatomy of the Einstein brain.Now what is it that we have experienced?
Until recently, some brain secrets were revealed, the most important of which were:
- The brain weighed 1230 grams, making it a below average organ (average is 1400 grams).
- The prefrontal cortex, which houses concentration, planning and endurance, is exceptionally developed.
- In some parts of the brain it had an unusually high density of neurons and glial cells (cells that support the neurons).
- His parietal lobes were abnormal. These cloths are responsible for symbolic thinking, language skills, mathematical thinking and spatial orientation.
- The corpus callosum of Einstein's brain was thicker than usual, which facilitated communication between the hemispheres.
Examining a brain to find and understand human genius is, scientifically speaking, a real Gaga project.
If you wanted results that meant something, you'd have to take multiple brains from geniuses and compare them.
And what happened to the rest of the brain?In 1997 Harvey, who was 84 years old, decided to visit Einstein's granddaughter. To do this, he drove all over the USA by car, the brain was in a Tupper can ..
Harvey wanted to show or even give the granddaughter's brain.
This thankfully declined. It was said that the contents of the Tupper can remind her of thick chicken broth.
Thomas Harvey died ten years later in 2007.In 2010, his heirs donated everything that was left of Einstein's brain to the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Chicago.
The estate also included 14 photos of the intact, not yet dismantled brain. No one had ever seen them before.A museum also bought a few bits of brain.They have been on display there since 2013.
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