The bizarre yet true story behind the theft of brain of the world's most famous scientist. The bizarre yet true story of the Princeton Hospital pathologist who in 1955 stole Albert Einstein's brain ...

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Albert Einstein died on 18 April 1955, aged 76. His death marked the end of one of the most influential scientific lives in history. It also marked the beginning of a long, unsettled afterlife for his ...

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 ...

Albert Einstein is undeniably one of the greatest geniuses of our time. How far would a person go to be as smart as he? Would a person who was willing to eat Einstein’s brain be as intelligent as the ...

What's stranger? A pack of young Bohemians hopping between cities and orgies? A writer and his Samoan attorney heading for Las Vegas for a week of psychedelia? Or a writer and an elderly pathologist ...

Across cultures and eras, human remains have held powerful spiritual and symbolic significance. The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a king’s body ensured his ascent to the gods. The ...

The curious fate of a genius's mind The genius of Albert Einstein never ceases to allure. Following his autopsy in 1955, Einstein's brain is said to have been sliced and scattered among researchers ...

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