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title: "The Secrets of Einstein's Brain"  
description: "The brain of Albert Einstein has been a subject of much research and speculation. Albert Einstein's brain was removed within seven and a half hours of his death"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-20  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1370/the-secrets-of-einstein-s-brain  
category: "science"  
tags: ["Einstein", "Einstein's Brain", "relativity theory", "scientist"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# The Secrets of Einstein's Brain

![The Secrets of Einstein s Brain](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/47cab583-b6f3-40ab-8c1d-1dc67177a062/images/4d10e905-c2e2-4acc-9cdd-3823fd568bee.jpeg) ![The Secrets of Einstein s Brain](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/47cab583-b6f3-40ab-8c1d-1dc67177a062/images/4e21d142-be67-4b9a-b6ba-fac60328bfcf.jpeg) Albert Einstein’s brain was taken from his body during an autopsy hours after his death, going against his and his family’s wishes. ![The Secrets of Einstein s Brain](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/47cab583-b6f3-40ab-8c1d-1dc67177a062/images/10baacf5-9cfd-427d-9388-a8e56314a931.jpeg) His brain was taken by pathologist Thomas Harvey MD ![The Secrets of Einstein s Brain](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/47cab583-b6f3-40ab-8c1d-1dc67177a062/images/ddbb35df-bda1-4b84-aa59-561676dc07ea.jpeg) And carved it into 240 blocks, which were then dissected further into 1,000 slides. ![The Secrets of Einstein s Brain](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/47cab583-b6f3-40ab-8c1d-1dc67177a062/images/c3716125-e79f-4304-acad-809827a7e3bc.jpeg) Harvey eventually received permission from Einstein’s family to analyse the brain for scientific research ![The Secrets of Einstein s Brain](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/47cab583-b6f3-40ab-8c1d-1dc67177a062/images/3b047f7b-6878-445d-878d-7ee9c3d1b887.jpeg) While many scientists agree that Einstein’s brain is special ![The Secrets of Einstein s Brain](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/47cab583-b6f3-40ab-8c1d-1dc67177a062/images/37057196-2182-472e-a2a5-efa5dac30ad3.jpeg) Einstein had thicker connections between the left and the right side of his brain ![The Secrets of Einstein s Brain](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/47cab583-b6f3-40ab-8c1d-1dc67177a062/images/585afc92-c90e-477b-825c-ddf9591fcc96.jpeg) The brain lacks a part called the Sylvian fissure

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