Einstein's Brain

One of the drawbacks of being a well-publicised genius is that the guy who does your autopsy may think it better to remove your brain in the name of science, and that your eyeballs would be a suitable present for your eye doctor. So at least it happened with Einstein despite his wish to be cremated and scattered. A man called Thomas Harvey, who did the autopsy, thought it was without question that the brain should be used for research and managed later to persuade Einstein's relatives. He than later took the brain as his personal possession and gave a piece to the occasional visitor who happened to have a good enough reason. In the video above, Harvey slices off a piece of brain with an elegant movement using a butcher's knife on the kitchen table for a Japanese Einstein fan, who wishes to use it for educational purposes... The video is part of the documentary "Einstein's Brain"; you may watch the whole thing on youtube. There seems to be very little other findings of scientific value at the moment.