Michael Paterniti

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Texas

A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

As the pathologist on duty at Princeton Hospital on April 17 1955, it was Thomas Harvey's job to carry out the autopsy on Albert Einstein. It must have been a humbling experience, coming face to face with the world-famous physicist, whose theory of relativity was so complex it was fourteen years before it was understood enough to be verified. Who's to say what inspired Harvey - greed or beneficence, pettiness or awe - but in an instance that was to shape his life forever, he cut the brain out of Einstein's head and removed it for himself. Harvey chopped the brain into two hundred pieces, gave a third away, and kept the rest hidden in glass jars, floating in murky formaldehyde. Until 1997 when, aged eighty-four, Harvey decided the brain should be taken to Berkeley, to Albert Einstein's grand-daughter Evelyn. It fell to the writer Michael Paterniti to drive him the four thousand miles from New Jersey to California.

Driving Mr. Albert

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Illinois

Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for over forty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein's perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as the imaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-driven genius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature.

Follows an 84-year-old pathologist across the country with Einstein's brain in a Tupperware bowl filled with formaldehyde.

Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography

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Est. Publication Date - Aug 2000

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Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Fair

Listed - 10 months ago

Views - 4

Ships From - Texas

Est. Publication Date - Aug 2000

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