Who took Einstein's brain samples?

1955, April 18, the early morning. New Jersey, Princeton Hospital.

An old man in the bed the issue of strange voices quickly vigil Alberta nurses came to visit. Murmured the elderly said she could not understand the language. Two heavy breathing, he quietly passed away. It was speculated that the elderly are dying, said his mother tongue German -about seventy years ago, he was born in Ulm, southern Germany town of a Jewish family, his name is Albert Einstein. (puma cat )

After a long period of time, the history of mankind as a precious treasure, one of Einstein's brain has to follow a doctor was dismissed with the back and forth, until fifty years after the hospital returned to Princeton to settle down. But in the meantime behind the legend, scientists have not given up the study of Einstein's brain. As Einstein's famous formula of his capture the essence of energy and matter, we are trying to capture the essence of genius ... ...

Who took Einstein's brain?

Einstein's death the night, opened Thomas Harvey pathologists Einstein's skull, to the preservative into the cerebral artery in the brain syrup soak into the fixed, this can be the most clever brain was saved. Although doctors Harvey promised to Einstein's brain for scientific research, and the Einstein family's permission, but the move was sparked endless debate. There are even a few well-known pathologist is strongly recommended that the nerve to give up these samples of Harvey, but Harvey refused. Soon, he was dismissed from Princeton Hospital.

Subsequent years, the genius of the brain has been associated with Harvey, to his bad luck is also known to his short-lived. He experienced a divorce, long-distance moving, unemployment and suspension of a license to practice medicine. He later became a Kansas plastic factory assembly workers, and the "Beat Generation" poet of the famous decadence William Burrows neighborhood, they often call each other brothers, wassail drink ... ... Although Burrows has often bragged about " When I want to get a piece of Einstein's brain will do, "Harvey treat as the lives of these samples.

In 1997, Harvey took the brain samples, together with reporters across the United States Mike visit to Einstein's granddaughter in California. Harvey plans to have the samples sent to future generations of scientists, but he changed his mind and quickly left her home. In the description of MIKE, Harvey is a strange old people, full of Don Quixote-like fantasy, from time to time broke out laughing inexplicable.

Three decades of silence

Fair to say that Harvey stubborn case of Einstein's brain and enthusiasm, not solely for fame, but not for the money - he has repeatedly refused to buy these expensive requirements of the brain samples. Harvey has always adhere to a commitment of Einstein, in his own half after the best efforts in the hope that scientific method can read the wisdom of the great scientists password. One brain was fixed, Harvey on it was carefully measured, but also from all different angles, making a lot of photos. According to the determination of Harvey, Einstein's brain weight of 1230 grams. With the expectations of the different days, the weight of more than 70-year-old men in old age, it was a lower value.

Harvey was sacked in shortly after, he will be the brain to the Philadelphia Hospital, where highly trained technicians in accordance with the authoritative map of the brain anatomy, this valuable mission carefully cut into the central nervous organization of 240 . Some of the brain block was then sliced, fixed on the glass. Harvey produced a total of 12 sets of specimens such as brain slices, and then, he was nervous of these samples sent to the most famous scientists in industry, I hope they can come to an alarming discovery. Rest of the organization was wrapped in transparent plastic celloidin, the suspension liquid in a large glass bottles of formaldehyde, the silence in the basement of Harvey's cardboard box or in the office.

In the first three decades, in addition to occasionally been announced, whether scientists or the general shape of the number of nerve cells "and the ordinary people no different from the brain", these unique nerve tissue, not to detonate any scientific discovery.