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The most highly-prized brain in Princeton does not belong to a University student, or even a professor. It sits inside two glass cookie jars in Princeton Medical Center on Witherspoon Street. And a ...

After performing Albert Einstein's autopsy, the pathologist put the brain in a jar of formaldehyde and made off with it. That single act torpedoed... Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The ...

On one of the last days of his life, Albert Einstein was busy at his desk. He was working on a national television address marking Israel's seventh anniversary as a sovereign nation and Jewish ...

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Albert Einstein didn’t plan to donate his brain to science. In fact, he requested his entire body be cremated and the ashes scattered secretly. But when the theoretical physicist died on April 18, ...

How did Albert Einstein become a genius? Many researchers have assumed that it took a very special brain to come up with the theory of relativity and other stunning insights that form the foundation ...

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