Finding Einstein's Brain
United States history, Medicine, Science and technology
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
Albert Einstein remains the quintessential icon of modern genius Like Newton and many others his seminal work in physics includes the General Theory of Relativity the Absolute Nature of Light and perhaps the most famous equation… of all time E mc2 Following his death in 1955 Einstein s brain was removed and preserved but has never been fully or systematically studied In fact the sections are not even all in one place and some are mysteriously unaccounted for In this compelling tale Frederick E Lepore delves into the strange elusive afterlife of Einstein s brain the controversy surrounding its use and what its study represents for brain and or intelligence studies Carefully reacting to the skepticism of 21st century neuroscience Lepore more broadly examines the philosophical medical and scientific implications of brain-examination Is the brain simply a computer If so how close are we to artificially creating a human brain Could scientists create a second Einstein This biography of a brain attempts to answer these questions exploring what made Einstein s brain anatomy exceptional and how found photographs--discovered more than a half a century after his death--may begin to uncover the nature of genius