Albert Einstein died in 1955, but Einstein’s brain remains a huge resource to find the secrets of genius. In Einstein’s will, he specified that he wanted to be cremated, and not buried or preserved in any way. This was, of course, bypassed by Einstein’s son and his medical examiner, Dr. Thomas Harvey. They set out to discover if anything in Einstein’s grey matter had anything to say about the man’s genius.
Einstein’s Brain was Scattered All Over the Scientific Community
Dr. Thomas Harvey preserved Einstein’s brain in celloidin, dissected it into 240 blocks, 1,000 microscopic slides and countless photographs. He proceeded to send different samples to the leading neurologists of the time all over the globe.
First of all, as observed by these neurologists, Einstein’s brain was a little light for a male. It was 2.7 pounds, as opposed to the average 3. The inferior parietal region, though, was 15% bigger than average, which could explain his affinity for mathematical and special reasoning. In the 1980s, one of the neurologists got back to Harvey, saying that the ratio of glial cells in Einstein’s left inferior parietal area may be higher than average. These cells provide nutritional support for neurons, which allows the brain to communicate. If so, then this would explain how Einstein was able to take complex scientific problems and understand them completely.
In 1999, it was found that a part if Einstein’s parietal operculum region in the inferior frontal gyrus of the frontal lobe was empty and that another portion, in the lateral suculus, was completely gone. This absence of these brain portions suggests that this made it so that Einstein’s thoughts could see rather than speak to each other. This supports Einstein’s statements saying that he was a visual thinker.
Fast Forward to the Present
Two years ago, a study that analyzed Einstein’s corpus callosum nerves were thicker than average, which explains how he was such a high functioning scientists. Beyond that, the genius of Einstein remains a huge mystery. The human brain is an amazingly unknown machine, and perhaps in time we may be able to confirm that all of these purely anatomical specifics made Einstein a genius, or if it was simply because it was his destiny.
The Secret of Einstein"s Brain and Genius Revealed
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