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Albert Einstein, touted as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, died April 18, 1955, as a result of a fatal aneurysm, in Princeton, New Jersey. Despite Einstein’s wishes to have his entire body cremated, the doctor who conducted his autopsy, Thomas Harvey, had other plans—he kept the brain aside.
Apr 21, 2014 · Albert Einstein, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who gave the world the theory of relativity, E = mc 2, and the law of the photoelectric effect, obviously had a special brain. So special that ...
Apr 17, 2015 · The missing 23 years have now been filled in. Back in 1955, armed with Hans Albert Einstein's permission to conduct an investigation, Harvey had measured and photographed the brain and even ...
Einstein’s cerebral cortex was thin ( Anderson and Harvey, 1996 ) and had widened sulci, which were normal for his age ( Magnotta et al., 1999 ). His brain mass of 1230 g ( Witelson et al., 1999b ) was also unexceptional. Gross anatomical studies of Einstein’s brain included identifications for a number of sulci that were indicated on ...
May 4, 2009 · Einstein's cerebral cortex was thin (Anderson and Harvey, 1996) and had widened sulci, which were normal for his age (Magnotta et al., 1999 ). His brain mass of 1230 g (Witelson et al., 1999b) was also unexceptional. Gross anatomical studies of Einstein's brain included identifications for a number of sulci that were indicated on photographs ...
Jun 18, 1999 · Einstein's Brain Power. Einstein's brain, photographed in 1955, is almost perfectly round. The world has never stopped thinking about Albert Einstein, arguably one of the century's greatest minds. Now, scientists who have reexamined his brain have come up with a theory of why Einstein, whose brain was preserved after he died in 1955, was ...
Nov 16, 2012 · Albert Einstein is considered to be one of the most intelligent people that ever lived, so researchers are naturally curious about what made his brain tick.
