
Not your average brain... Einstein's cerebral cortex has a number of unusual features that might be related to his genius in physics.
Credit: Dean Falk/S. Witelson et al., The Lancet, 353, 19 June 1999
When Einstein died in 1955 at Princeton Hospital in New Jersey, his brain was removed by a local pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who preserved, photographed, and measured it.