Download Einstein's brain image

IPad users can now download detailed images of the scientist's brain that revolutionized physics - Albert Einstein.

For a fee of $ 9.99, the application just released on September 25 helps scientists access the genius of a genius scientist easier than ever.

Teachers, students or anyone curious also have the opportunity to observe in detail the brain of this genius scientist.

A digital image of brain slices of Einstein's genius scientist

A medical museum in Chicago received funding to scan and digitize nearly 350 slices of a part of Einstein's brain.

The new application will allow researchers and interested people to see in detail the brains of the singular Nobel prize winner as if being observed under a microscope.

Einstein's brain pieces went through a strange journey since the genius scientist died at 76 in 1955 due to abdominal aneurysm. Pathologist Thomas Harvey, who examined Einstein's autopsy, took Einstein's brain to examine it, but couldn't put it back in place. Later, Harvey said that Einstein's son allowed him to retain the scientist's brain.

Harvey lost his job after this incident, but he still retained his brain. For many years, he sent some parts of Einstein's brain to neuroscience scientists to find out if anything strange in it helped Einstein so brilliantly.

Albert Einstein. (1879-1955)

To thank William Ehrich, a pathologist, for examining the pieces of brain in the lab, Harvey gave Ehrich a box containing 46 ultra-thin brain fragments, each only 20-50 micrometers thick.

When Ehrich died in 1967, his wife gave these pieces of brain to a local doctor named Allen Steinberg. Steinberg then sent Lucy Rorke-Adams, a neurologist at Philadelphia Children's Hospital. Recently, Rorke-Adams decided to donate these pieces to the Mütter Museum.

Many researchers have discovered some unusual features in Einstein's brain, including extra cells in some brain regions that help the complex thinking process.

According to Rorke-Adams, under a microscope, Einstein's brain looked different from ordinary people, because it lacked lipofuscin - the factor affecting aging. The shape of blood cells in the brain is also better than the average person.

However, it is difficult to confirm the difference in Einstein's brain structure to make him a genius, because the unusual characteristics of the brain structure are just coincidence.