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When the world-famous mathematician and physicist Albert Einstein died in hospital at Princeton in 1955, his body was transferred to the morgue for a routine post-mortem investigation as a matter of course. It was while performing this operation that the pathologist Thomas Harvey made the decision to remove and keep the great man's brain for further research and see if it was physiologically different in any way from those belonging to the rest of us poor mortals. Then, after a series of lengthy and unlikely adventures, the brain ended up in Wichita, Kansas more than two decades later, now cut up into small pieces and preserved in jars kept in a cardboard carton that had once held bottles of cider. Carolyn Abraham is a medical journalist on the Toronto Globe & Mail, and well equipped to tell this fantastic story, which she does in an erudite but delightfully dry throwaway style, which will keep her readers enthralled and appalled throughout! (Kirkus UK)

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