Slices of the brain the creator of the theory of relativity, the great physicist Albert Einstein first exhibited in the museum of Medicine in Philadelphia, Thomas Mutter.
Museum visitors can see the 46 sections of the brain scientist's thinner than a human hair, one of them - under a microscope, said the CBS television aired U.S. scientists, peredet RIA Novosti.
Dr. Rork, Lucy Adams, a neurologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said the program CBS «Talk Philly», that when the brains of Einstein looks just like a young man, and he does not wear a pigment which is characteristic for the elderly. In addition, the vessels of the brain of the scientist as ... ...
Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76 years from the rupture of the abdominal aorta. A pathologist named Thomas Harvey, the brain has learned a genius at the time of opening of the standard procedure, but left it to itself, which caused a scandal because of the protests of relatives of the deceased scientist.
Harvey lost his job, but kept Einstein's brain. In an effort to understand whether the brain is different from the brain of the genius of ordinary people, a pathologist sent to various scientists in the U.S. sections of the brain. Thus, some of them through third parties was a doctor Rork - Adams, which she decided to put slices of the brain of Einstein to the museum named Mutter.
Although they are now stored in the museum, scientists will be able to continue research, reports CBS. According to the TV in the future the exhibition will be supplemented with photographs enlarged under a microscope images of cells of the brain of Albert Einstein.

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