Whose brain was stolen ???

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Actually My topic may be a bit interesting because Albert Einstein, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who gave the world the theory of relativity, E = mc2, and the law of the photoelectric effect, obviously had a special and wonderful brain. So special that when he died in Princeton Hospital, on April 18, 1955, the pathologist on call, Thomas Harvey, stole it. Let’s see why he stole that and what happen?

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Whose brain was stolen?

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His name was Albert Einstein. Einstein was born on March 14, 1879. And he was a German mathematician and physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. And also in 1921 he had won the Nobel Prize for physics for the explanation of the photoelectric effect. In this decade, he immigrated to United State of America because he had been targeted by the German Nazi Party.

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However, Einstein could not find any lecturing and teaching position. So he began to work in a Bern patent office in 1901. According to his Nobel Prize biography. While he analyzing patent applications, he developed his work in special relativity and other areas of physics that later made him- self and famous. His could transform a major impact on the development of atomic energy. He focused on unified field theory in his later years too. Einstein is generally considered as most influential physicist of the 20th century that works with his passion for inquiry.

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Scientific legacies of Einstein.

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Legacy for astronomy.

Einstein's Death.

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Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955 because of the heart failure at his age of 76 His funeral and the cremation were happen with private affairs, and only one photographer who managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day was LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse.

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Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein’s journey in the world did not end with his death. When this physicist died in New Jersey, pathologist Thomas Harvey, MD, autopsied the body and removed Einstein’s brain without Einstein’s family’s permission. Dr. Harvey got the permission to keep the brain, with only one condition, that it be used for scientific research.

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Einstein's Brain.

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Dr. Thomas Harvey kept the brain of one of the world’s greatest minds in a glass jar and cider box under a beer cooler. They dissected the brain into 240 blocks and made 1,000 microscopic slides of the brain tissue and sent pieces of the brain to researchers all over the world sent pieces of the brain to . Dr. Harvey researchers all over the world.

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Dr. Harvey donated the remainder of Einstein’s brain to the pathology department at Princeton Hospital and thereafter Mütter Museum received these slides of the brain from Lucy B. Rorke-Adams, MD, Senior Neuropathology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Clinical Professor of Pathology, Neurology, and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. Actually she is a longtime Fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The Mutter Museum is one of only two places in the world where you can see pieces of Albert Einstein’s brain parts. Brain sections, 20 microns thick and stained with cresyl violet, are preserved in glass slides on display in the main Museum Gallery.

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Scientists who have examined his brain and concluded that it is not normal. They mention that the Einstein’s brain weighs less than the brain of an average adult male, 2.7lbs versus 3 lbs, the inferior parietal region of the brain is 15% larger than in an average brain as this is very special thing. Some are think that the brain lacks an anatomical crevice called the Sylvian fissure.

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Some neuroscientists speculate that these features could account for Einstein’s increased mathematical and spatial reasoning skills and his brain lacks several degenerative changes that would normally be present in a 76-year-old.

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