Albert Einstein`s brain on display in Britain
Baku, March 29 (AZERTAC). The brain`s genius physicist, Albert Einstein will be on display in Britain for the first time. Some parts of Einstein`s brain will be on display this week in an exhibition about the human brain and intelligence.
Keep in mind that when Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76 years ago, his brain is divided into several sections. Well, two parts of the brain will be showcased in the exhibition entitled `Brains: The Mind as Matter` at Wellcome Collection museum.
Two parts of Einstein`s brain was lent by the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, United States (U.S.). In the past year, the brain is exhibited to the U.S. public for the first time.
When he died, Einstein`s body was cremated and his ashes were then distributed according to demand. However, pathologist Thomas Harvey who performed autopsies on the bodies of Einstein, claimed he had permission from Einstein`s son to save his father`s brain for research purposes.
Despite recent claims are to be debate Harvey. But Harvey keeps Einstein`s brain, which was not as big as imagined and then cut it up into 240 sections. The pieces are preserved in jars of formaldehyde in the home.
Harvey then gave 46 pieces of Einstein`s brain to the colleague William Ehrich. Several more pieces donated to a museum in Philadelphia, USA.
One of the exhibition curators, Lucy Shanahan said, the pieces of Einstein`s brain raises many questions. “There is a curiosity that wanted to know if there is something significant, or there`s a difference in the brains of a genius,” he said.
“The exhibition shows how the brain of a fragile organ that has become the object of the highest hopes, fears and beliefs of modern society, and some of the most extreme practices and advanced technologies,” said a guest curator, Marius Kwint.
“Various ways of treating and human brains show raises many questions about our collective thinking,” he added.
In addition to pieces of Einstein`s brain, the exhibition will also display the largest ever preserved brains, which belonged to an assassin named Edward Rulloff of the 19th century. Rulloff was executed in 1871 for murdering his wife, son, and a shopkeeper in New York, USA.
Then the brain also exhibited the U.S. women`s activist Helen Gardener, who accidentally donates his brain for research about gender theories.
Then there is the brain of the oldest of Egypt, there is also the brain of the computer science pioneer Charles Babagge.
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