After the genius Einstein died, he didn't want researchers going around his brain for analysing it etc.
But Thomas Harvey didn't care. At peril to his job, he went and clamied that he had permission to take the brain during the autopsy. However Harvey was not a neuroscientist. Next, when hospital officials asked him to give the brain back he refused. He next drove to Philadelphia where he found a technician to cut Einstein's brain into 200 pieces. Over the next 40 years these cubes ended up in all weird places. He stored them in jars at the basement of his house and it nearly got destroyed by his wife! When he moved to Kansas he kept them in a box under the beer cooler. Once Harvey, by mistake left it in Einstein's granddaughter's house! She wasn't too pleased with this. Harvey tried to mail pieces of the brain to scientists but either they they didn't study it or the very few of them who showed interest cranked out studies that were inconclusive, derided or discredited. Dissapointed Harvey returned the brain to the hospital. He died in 2007.
But Thomas Harvey didn't care. At peril to his job, he went and clamied that he had permission to take the brain during the autopsy. However Harvey was not a neuroscientist. Next, when hospital officials asked him to give the brain back he refused. He next drove to Philadelphia where he found a technician to cut Einstein's brain into 200 pieces. Over the next 40 years these cubes ended up in all weird places. He stored them in jars at the basement of his house and it nearly got destroyed by his wife! When he moved to Kansas he kept them in a box under the beer cooler. Once Harvey, by mistake left it in Einstein's granddaughter's house! She wasn't too pleased with this. Harvey tried to mail pieces of the brain to scientists but either they they didn't study it or the very few of them who showed interest cranked out studies that were inconclusive, derided or discredited. Dissapointed Harvey returned the brain to the hospital. He died in 2007.
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