Albert Einstein Brain Theft: Who did it?

When Albert Einstein passed away on April 18, 1955, at the age of 76, he advised that his body be cremated and the ashes dispersed to prevent his body or any of its components from being taking, studied, or even tampered with.

Brain theft involving Albert Einstein

Nevertheless, Thomas Harvey, the coroner at Princeton Hospital, carelessly stole Einstein’s brain. He later persuaded Hans Albert, Einstein’s son, to give him permission to keep and study the brain with the promise to share the findings with other researchers, use them only for the advancement of science, and publish the findings in specialized journals. This was doing with intentionality to Einstein’s wishes and the wishes of his family.

Voyage of Einstein’s Mind

From there, Einstein’s brain began its incredible trip. Harvey brought the brain to the University of Pennsylvania where he shot the healthy brain from various angles before dissecting it into 240 tiny bits. This was doing after Harvey was firing from Princeton Hospital due to his fixation with the brain and refusal to return it to the hospital. He saved the brain from loosing forever by retrieving it from his wife, who had threatening to throw it away. He preserved it in two alcohol-filled jars in his basement using a rubbery substance called celloidin.

Harvey moved the brain to Wichita, Kansas, where he kept it in a cider crate underneath a beer refrigerator for more than 20 years. During that time, he frequently sending various pieces of the brain to researchers who were having interest in studying it. He then moved the brain again to Weston, Missouri, where he lost his license. Following a poor score on the aptitude exam, medical.

He relocated once more to Lawrence, Kansas. Where he lived with Einstein’s brain in a small apartment on the second floor next to a gas station. It was ironic that Harvey thoughts having Einstein’s brain would help advance his medical career. But he ultimately had to work on an assembly line in a plastic coating factory to pay his bills. He also continued to study the brain.

The brain has disappeared

Harvey originally intended to give the brain to Evelyn Einstein, the great-granddaughter of Albert Einstein. However, when he learned that she didn’t want him, he gave the remainder of the brain that was in his possession to University Medical Center at Princeton in 1998. Harvey passed away in 2007. 46 slices of his brain were ultimately giving. Einstein’s brain was donated to the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia. Also the most of it was kept at the University Medical Center in Princeton to mark the end of his peculiar trip.

Body of the brain

In defying Einstein’s desires, keeping his promise to Einstein’s son. Also allowing other scientists to investigate various sections of the brain, the brain thief (Harvey) actually did humanity a benefit. It has been determine that a number of anomalies, including an above-average proportion, may have contribution to Einstein’s genius. The ratio of glial cells to neurons, the function of these cells in providing the brain with support and nutrition, and the development of myelin. Which coats and insulates neurons and aids in signal transmission throughout the brain.

The corpus callosum, a group of nerves that allows communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. It was another difference between Einstein’s brain and the brains of people with average intelligence. Some researchers believe that these and other differences have giving permission for improving performance and communication between different parts of his brain. Which is what making Einstein the greatest genius of modern times.

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