Albert Einstein brain samples go on display
Sections of Albert Einstein's brain are going on display in Britain for the first time this Thursday in an exhibition of notable examples of human grey matter.
When the physics genius died aged 76 in 1955 his brain was divided into sections, two of which are going on show at the Wellcome Collection show Brains: The Mind As Matter.
The two slides from Einstein's brain are on loan from the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, where they were shown publicly for the first time in the US last year.
Einstein was cremated and his ashes were scattered according to his wishes. But the pathologist Thomas Harvey, who carried out the postmortem, said Einstein's son gave him permission to preserve the brain for research, a claim that was later disputed.
full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/27/albert-einstein-brain-samples-display
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