What happened to Albert Einsteins brain after he died?
Although Einstein’s body was cremated, his brain was saved. Einstein died at 1:15 am on April 18, 1955 at Princeton Hospital in New Jersey. Later that morning, Princeton Hospital pathologist Dr. Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy on Einstein and removed Einstein’s brain. Harvey cut the brain into 240 pieces. He was very protective of the brain and kept it jars at his house. In the mid 1970s, Steven Levy, a reporter for the New Jersey Monthly, hopped into his car and set out to find Einsteins brain. Levy published his story in 1978 and part of it can be found on the Internet. Levy discovered that Einsteins brain was still with Dr. Harvey who was now in Wichita, Kansas. The brain was in two mason jars in a cardboard box that was marked with the words “Costa Cider”. Most of the brain, except for the cerebellum and parts of the cerebral cortex, had been sectioned (sliced). Over the years, Harvey gave several pieces of the brain to different researchers including Dr. Marian Diamond (UC Berk
