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On Finding Einstein’s Brain In A Costa Cider Jar

by | 26th, October 2011

Stephen Levy on finding Einstein’s lost brain

I came to the conclusion that the brain, in sectioned form, was still in the possession of the pathologist who removed it from the Einstein head, Dr. Thomas Harvey. I tracked him down in Wichita, Kansas. At first he didn’t want to tell me anything, but after a while he finally admitted that he had the brain. After a longer while, he sheepishly told me it was IN THE VERY OFFICE WE WERE SITTING IN. He walked to a box labeled “Costa Cider” and pulled out two big Mason jars. In those were the remains of the brain that changed the world.

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In one of his rare public appearances as a musician, Professor Albert Einstein, left, plays a violin on Jan. 24, 1941 at Princeton, New Jersey, in a recital for the benefit of the American Friends service committee for the refugee children in England. Gaby Casadesus, concert pianist and wife of the French composer, Robert Casadesus, is at the piano, Man at center is unidentified. (AP Photo)

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