The Brain

Albert Einstein died and was cremated in 1955. But it was rumored that Einstein’s brain had been preserved. The rumor proved true in 1978 when an enterprising reporter tracked the brain to the home of Dr. Thomas S. Harvey in Wichita, Kan. Harvey, the pathologist, who performed the final autopsy on Einstein, had stored the scientist’s brain in two mason jars and kept it for future study. Smart move.