How Einstein's Brain was Different ?
We all know that Einstein was a
genius.
So much so that his brain would work more than a thousand scientists.
Things which we never thought of let alone understand
Einstein worked on those things and and made it easy for the whole world.
Albert Einstein was a physicist who published the theory of special relativity, E=mc²
and formulating the photoelectric laws and left the world surprised.
And therefore he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Seeing his extraordinary thinking and understanding power
people believe that Einstein had an extraordinary brain
which was quite different from ordinary human.
Einstein too knew this and therefore
he didn't wanted his body to be researched upon after his demise.
Rather he had instructed his body to be cremated.
But the same happened what Einstein was afraid of.
On 13 April 1955, when Einstein died in Princeton Hospital.
The doctor came to perform the autopsy, stole Einstein's brain secretly.
Because he was curious to know what's there inside the brain of this genius.
Dr. Thomas Harvey,
The doctor who stole Einstein's brain was Dr. Thomas Harvey,
who was more interested in studying this brain
than facing the consequences.
When the Princeton Hospital came to know about this incident, they fired him.
But Dr. Harvey was successful in pursuing Hans Albert to give him permission
to research upon his father's brain and let the world know about it.
From that day, a long journey started for that brain.
Dr Harvey was a pathologist who knew only about post-mortem.
And that's why he believed that he would be able to research this genius's brain.
But the situation was that Dr. Harvey lost his job in Princeton Hospital,
and also the designation of a pathologist.
Dr. Harvey took Einstein's brain to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Where he took a lot of photos of the brain and cut them into 240 small pieces.
And preserving every piece in separate jars, he hid all of them in his basement.
Einstein's Wife
Because of this, he had arguments with his wife.As his wife used to threaten him that she will throw this brain outside.
The arguments eventually lead to divorce.
And Dr Harvey went Wichita, Kansas with the brain,
where he started working as a medical supervisor.
And here in his free time he tried to study Einstein's brain.
After that, he frequently switched jobs and move to different cities with the brain.
Even after many years Dr. Harvey couldn't do any solid research on Einstein's brain.
Instead his medical license was cancelled.
And the situation was so bad for him that he had to start working in a plastics factory.
At the time he made a good decision, to send different pieces of the brain
to the best neurologist of the world for detailed research.
And he did that.
30 years after the brain was stolen
first time in 1985 a study was published on Einstein's brain.
For the next 28 years, many neurologists have published several studies
on this genius's brain.
In which it was found that Einstein's brain was quite different from the ordinary human brain.
The biggest difference was found in the Corpus callosum part.
Now it is important to know that human brain is divided into two parts.
Whatever work a human does, it is processed in one part
and then brain sends signal to that part of the body.
Left brain controls the right portion of the body
whereas right brain controls the left portion of the body.
And for 90% humans left brain is responsible for speech, understanding,
mathematical calculations and writing.
Whereas the right brain is responsible for creativity, understanding of shapes, art and music.
Now you must be thinking then what is the work of Corpus callosum?
Imagine you are typing on the keyboard or mobile phone
and while doing this both our hands are busy typing.
Left hand is typing some alphabets, and the right hand is also doing the same.
During typing your left hand made a mistake
and you quickly used your right hand to erase that mistake.
That means that when your right brain committed a mistake,
it rectified the mistake by signalling the left brain.
The link through which both halves of the brain are connected is called Corpus callosum.
And Einstein's Corpus callosum was larger than ordinary humans.
That means his left brain and the right brain had a strong connection.
Because of which Einstein could imagine complex problems and situations.
Apart from the difference in Corpus callosum,
Einstein's brain's pattern was also quite different from others.
And researchers believe that it was the reason for good neuron flow.
Good flow of neurons means that he had great power for mathematical calculations.
Albert Einstein had the power of solving complex mathematical problems
in his head without using pen and paper.
According to a research paper another reason for having a high number of neurons was that
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