CNN Somebodys Gotta Do It With Mike Rowe December 11, 2014 02:09:00
Okay. >> this is one of two places in the world where we see parts of einstein's brain. i say parts because it's the slides. >> sure. >> his brain was taken without his family's permission. >> he was no longer using it. >> he said prior to his death he did not want to be preserved, any part of him preserved. i believe he was cremated. he didn't want any parts of him relics. he wanted to be gone. the pathologist took it upon himself to remove his brain at autopsy and kept it in a pickle jar in a cider box in for a couple of decades. he died in '76, i believe, but didn't have the plaque we have ...
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