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Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey Of Einsteins Brain

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Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey Of Einsteins Brain

by Abraham, Carolyn

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A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" April 18, 1955, was an auspicious day for Thomas Stoltz Harvey. As chief pathologist at Princeton Hospital, he had been called to do an autopsy on a corpse seven hours old. It was a routine procedure with one significant difference: This was the cadaver of Albert Einstein. Harvey saw, in Einstein's corpse, a chance to do something "noble, "to contribute in some way to the annals of science. So before he stitched the body shut, Thomas Harvey removed the brain of the twentieth-century's greatest intellectual hero. He took it without permission but struck a deal with Einstein's family to keep it, becoming the custodian of this remarkable relic and preserving it for posterity and the scientists he deemed worthy to study it. He promised to guard the brain against souvenir hunters and publicity seekers and vowed that any information about it would appear only in serious scientific journals. He had no idea that the power of Einstein'' celebrity would engulf the rest of his life. Possessing Genius tells the story of a man obsessed with his conviction that a collection of brain tissue might someday solve the mystery of genius. Painstakingly researched, it includes never-before-published correspondence between Harvey and the executor of Einstein's estate that sheds new light on how the brain fell into one manÕs hands. It dramatically evokes the shift from scientists' morbid curiosity about an amazing specimen to the serious questions and hypotheses inspired by the existence of the organ, including the widely touted work on Einstein's brain by Canadian neuropsychologist Sandra Witelson. Possessing Genius won the Canadian Science Writers' Association's 2001 Science in Society Book Award and has been nominated for the 2002 Governor General's Award for Nonfiction." About the Author: Carolyn Abraham is the medical reporter for The Globe and Mail in Toronto. The winner of two national awards from the Canadian Newspaper Association, she won the Hollobon Science in Society Award for her articles on the business of genetics. She lives in Toronto with her husband.

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Title
Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey Of Einsteins Brain
Author
Abraham, Carolyn
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Paperback
ISBN 10
014029368X
ISBN 13
9780140293685
Publisher
Penguin Canada
Place of Publication
Toronto
Date Published
2002
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