Einstein's brain was stolen after his death

The genius scientist Albert Einstein died in 1955 at Princeton Hospital (Princeton, USA). The pathologist who performed the autopsy, named Thomas Harvey. Harvey drew the brain for study, as is the case during the autopsy, but instead give it to science, Harvey took the brain itself.

At the risk of his job and reputation, he placed it in a jar of formaldehyde and carried away home. Over the next forty years, Thomas Harvey sent brain slices cut leading neuroscientists to study. The pathologist was absolutely convinced that the theft of the brain is its scientific duty.

What remained of the brain, it is now at Princeton, from which it was stolen. Descendants Harvey tried to return his daughter Einstein, but she refused this "gift", so the brain back to the university.

via factroom.ru