Museum puts samples of Einstein`s brain on display

25.11.2011 [11:18]
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Baku, November 25 (AZERTAC). Samples of Albert Einstein`s brain have been put on display at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

Lucy Rorke-Adams, a neuropathologist who has worked at Children`s Hospital of Philadelphia for 47 years, donated 46 slides of Einstein`s gray matter to the museum, which is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Einstein`s brain was "carefully preserved, partitioned and distributed" after his death in 1955, and parts ended up in the hands of a number of hospitals and researchers. From the Inquirer:

Most of Einstein`s preserved brain is held by the University Medical Center at Princeton.

In an interview with CBS` Talk Philly, Rorke-Adams said that the samples show that "Einstein`s brain is that of a young person, it`s really remarkable, it does not show any of the changes that we associate with age."

Robert Hicks, the director of the Mutter Museum, told Talk Philly that Einstein`s brain isn`t the first piece of a historical figure that the museum has come by: the institution also boasts pieces of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth and President Grover Cleveland.

Museum puts samples of Einstein`s brain on display

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