Thomas Harvey, a doctor at the hospital where Einstein died, removed the famous scientist’s brain and kept it with him over the next four decades. Harvey wanted to know what made Einstein a genius. For a time Harvey worked as a medical supervisor in a biological testing lab in Wichita, Kansas, keeping the brain in a cider box stashed under a beer cooler. NPR features “Postcards from the Brain Museum” by Brian BurrellWhile on the subject: Gravity Probe B is the relativity gyroscope experiment being developed by NASA and Stanford University to test two extraordinary, unverified predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The experiment has been in the works since 1963.
- Stanford’s Testing Einstein’s Universe
- NASA’s Gravity Probe B: The relativity mission