The Brilliant Brain of Albert Einstein

Did you know that after the death of the great physicist Albert Einstein in 1955, his brain was removed, photographed from multiple angles, and then sliced into 240 pieces for scientific study? Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Einstein, kept the brain even though Einstein's will dictated that he wished to be cremated with his brain inside his head.

The study of his brain revealed that Einstein's parietal lobe, which is involved in spatial awareness and mathematical thought, was 15% larger than average.

Moreover, a part of Einstein's brain called the 'Sylvian fissure' was completely absent, which may have enabled the neurons in this part of his brain to communicate more effectively.

These distinctive features might have contributed to his extraordinary intellectual abilities.

After Harvey's death in 2007, the pieces of Einstein's brain are now located at the University Medical Center in Princeton, New Jersey..