1April, 955 18, at Princeton University School of Medicine, 76-year-old Einstein died in the morning light. Dr. thomas harvey, the chief pathologist of Princeton University, was authorized to perform autopsies on the smartest people. Harvey found a tumor the size of a football on the body.
The aortic aneurysm ruptured.-That's how Einstein died. Harvey was not surprised by this, because they had diagnosed Einstein's disease long before his death. He even remembers that when he was explaining his illness to the smartest person, the gentleman looked pale and said, "Then let him break it!" " "
At this time, Harvey also learned to look like Einstein. He took out a ball of cotton and stuffed it into Einstein's empty skull. It was on this day-1April 20th, 955 that the brains of famous pathologists Harvey and Einstein began to entangle for decades.
This is undoubtedly a theft, and it is a very bad theft. For a man who has devoted his first half of his life to study and medicine, his clumsy stealing can't be covered up for long. So hospitals, family members, the media and even the whole world cast angry and even contemptuous eyes on Harvey.
Just because the smartest person in the 20th century has clearly left a last wish, that is, to be cremated. And he himself, even his family, has never signed any agreement on organ donation. There is no doubt that Harvey's practice is not in line with humanitarianism. Of course, hospitals have different views on this. They said to Harvey:
Obviously, the hospital couldn't help drooling over Einstein's brain. But how could Harvey be willing to hand over his hard-won brain? So he took Einstein's brain at the cost of being expelled from Princeton University. At the same time, his whole career was ruined. Because no medical-related institution will hire such a "brain thief".
But Harvey doesn't care. If you can't find a job, you can't find it. Instead, he devoted all his experiences to the study of Einstein's brain. He cut Einstein's brain into 240 pieces, at the same time, he gave each piece a partial description and detailed number, and put it in a jar full of formalin. Then, he started his research anonymously.
Marianne Diamond, a top neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, was Harvey's first assistant. The lady was lucky enough to get four pieces of brain tissue the size of a cube of sugar that Harvey gave her. Perhaps Princeton Hospital was right at the beginning, and neuroscientists were the main force to study Einstein's brain.
From 65438 to 0985, Marianne Diamond assembled her research results into a paper-a scientist's brain: Albert Einstein. In the paper, she compared Einstein's brain with that of other 1 1 ordinary men.
It was found that the proportion of neurons in the "glial cells" of Einstein's brain was 73% higher than that of the other four people. This may or may not be related to Einstein's cleverness, but it is a major breakthrough. 、
In the following ten years, Harvey began to "lend" Einstein's brain to other scientists in the world. However, the "rent" he borrowed was not money, but the right to sign those documents. From then on, the study of Einstein's brain specimens began to develop like a blowout.
These studies show that Einstein's total brain mass is only1.230g, which is lower than the average brain mass of ordinary people. The lower part of the top leaf, which involves "digital and spatial processing", is about 15% larger than the average level. Neurons in the brain are also very dense, and glial cells in some areas seem to be above average.
However, the Bullokar area of the parietal lobe, the insula of the parietal lobe and the adjacent lateral sulcus involved in the "language expression" part are less than the average level of ordinary people, and even have defects. Moreover, the hippocampus in his brain is not symmetrical. Obviously, the left side is larger than the right side.
Of course, if we only look at various physiological indicators, even if there are abnormalities, we can't clearly see that this brain has super-long wisdom. Because this is Einstein's brain, all anomalies can also be explained as one of the reasons for his extraordinary wisdom.
Some scholars even think crazily that if there is no parietal lobe island cover, the communication between neurons in this area may be improved, thus making people smarter. But no scholar really cut through this area to prove his guess is correct. So what if everyone has a chance? Do you want to cut off the top leaf island cover that is in the way?