Albert Einstein is widely regarded as a genius, but how did he get that way? Researchers believed that it took a very special brain to come up with the theory of relativity and other stunning insights that form the foundation of modern physics. Albert Einstein before his death had made it very clear that he did not want anybody to study his brain or any part of his body. But Thomas Harvey Einstein’s doctor took the brain anyway, without permission from Einstein or his family. Studying it he found out that within Einstein's brain, regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial processing are larger.Harvey had reported that Einstein had no parietal operculum in either hemisphere,[12] but this finding has been disputed.[Photographs of the brain show an enlarged Sylvian fissure. In 1999, further analysis by a team at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario revealed that his parietal operculum region in the inferior frontal gyrus in the frontal lobe of the brain was vacant. Also absent was part of a bordering region called the lateral sulcus (Sylvian fissure). Also, Einstein's brain weighed only 1.230kg whereas the average brain is weighed 1.4 kg. A lab at the University of Pennsylvania where he dissected it into several pieces; some of the pieces he kept to himsel
f while others were given to leading pathologists. In 2010, Harvey's heirs transferred all of his holdings constituting the remains of Einstein's brain to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, including 14 photographs of the whole brain (which was now in fragments) never before revealed to the public.
More recently, 46 small portions of Einstein's brain were acquired by the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. In 2013, these thin slices, mounted on microscope slides, went on exhibit in the museum's permanent galleries. Like this brains of many geniuses have been preserved
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