A neuroscientis found that the brains of Einstein's 15 percent more spacious than the average brain in general, and inferior parietal regions in both hemispheres of the brain is much more advanced than your average human brain.
Philadelphia's Mutter Museum and Historical Medical Library also showcased 45 samples of Einstein's brain slices and one slice of which is under the microscope. Thin slices of brain scientists is taken to find out what makes it so great.
Einstein's brain was taken as part of a routine autopsy after his death in 1955 at the age of 76 years caused by the condition of abdominal aneurism.
Thomas Harvey, a pathologist who conducted an autopsy on Einstein's claim that Einstein's son had given him permission to keep the brain to be studied.
But the Einstein family denied this fact and make Harvey lost his job. Nevertheless Harvey maintaining brain and preserved in a jar of formaldehyde and divided into 240 parts of which he kept in a jar in his house.
About 46 parts of the brain he gave to his colleague who is also a pathologist William Ehrich for samples made in the laboratory. And this brain slices exhibited to the public at the Philadelphia museum.
Brain slices exhibited was contributed by Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams, a neurophatologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia received from a local doctor who came from Ehrich Steinberg after his death in 1967.
"Einstein was a unique individual, and has an organ associated with the intelligence of this great man is a great opportunity," said museum curator Anna Dhody, as quoted from MedIndia, Monday (11/28/2011).
Although Einstein died at the age of 76 years, but Dr. Rorke Adams reveals that people who see his brain would think that it is the brains of people who are younger than 76 years.
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