Then he went back to the box and pulled out a big glass jar with a metal lid affixed on the top and a masking tape. Thomas explained they were Einstein’s cerebellum, a chunk of cerebral cortex, and some aortic vessels. There was a conch-shaped mass of wrinkly material, a spongy chunk of grey material, and some pinkish strings that looked like bloated dental floss. He then took out a mason jar filled with several pieces of matter. In his article, My Search for Einstein’s Brain, published in the New Jersey Monthly of August 1978, Steven describes the experience, “It had no lid, but on top were crumpled newspapers. Though Thomas was reluctant to entertain any queries from Steven Levy about his possession, he slowly opened up and pulled out a cardboard box stacked along with a pile of books. And all through that time, nothing was known about the fate of Einstein’s brain until a young journalist Steven Levy set out to rediscover it. For more than two decades, he wandered, almost incognito, through various cities of midwestern USA, doing odd jobs. Brain Burrell in his book, Postcards from the Brain Museum, recounts, “Harvey did not have the permission nor did he have a legal right to keep the brain to himself,” but later, he obtained “retroactive blessing from Einstein’s son, Hans Albert.” However, the University of Princeton was not pleased by these developments and dismissed Thomas for refusing to surrender the precious pieces. To begin with, whether Thomas had the consent of Einstein or his family to remove the brain is in dispute.
However, what followed was simply bizarre. The whole purpose was to study the brain to understand the neurological basis of Einstein’s extraordinary intellect. Later, he dissected the brain to 240 blocks of approximately one centimetre cube size and embedded them in collodion - a plastic-like material. He carefully weighed the intact brain, photographed it from various angles, injected 50 per cent formalin through the carotid arteries and suspended the whole brain in 10 per cent formalin for preservation. Within hours after Einstein’s death on Ap(during the autopsy), Dr Thomas Harvey, a pathologist at the Princeton hospital in the US, removed the brain that worked out the theory of relativity and conceived the equivalence of matter and energy. He was endowed with a high level of intelligence, ability to conceive and manipulate three-dimensional spatial images, mathematical representations of concepts and music too.ĭuring his lifetime, many wondered if his brain has been wired differently to account for such exceptional abilities. Albert Einstein is regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of the planet.
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