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  EINSTEIN BRAIN Einstein died of an aortic aneurysm on April 18, 1955. A  blood vessel burst  near his heart, according to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). When asked if he wanted to have surgery, Einstein refused. "I want to go when I want to go," he said. "It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." Einstein's body — most of it, anyway — was cremated; his ashes were spread in an undisclosed location, according to the AMNH. However, a doctor at Princeton Hospital, Thomas Harvey, had performed an autopsy, apparently without permission, and removed Einstein's brain and eyeballs, according to Matt Blitz, who wrote about Einstein's brain in a 2015 column for  Today I Found Out . Harvey sliced hundreds of thin sections of brain tissue to place on microscope slides, and  snapped 14 photos  of the brain from several angles. He took the brain tissue, slides and images with him w...
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Albert's early life and family

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  Early Life & Family      Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. Einstein grew up in a secular Jewish family. His father, Hermann Einstein, was a salesman and engineer who, with his brother, founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, a Munich-based company that mass-produced electrical equipment.  Einstein’s mother, the former Pauline Koch, ran the family household. Einstein had one sister, Maja, born two years after him. Einstein attended elementary school at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. However, he felt alienated there and struggled with the institution's rigid pedagogical style.  He also had what were considered speech challenges, though he developed a passion for classical music and playing the violin, which would stay with him into his later years. Most significantly, Einstein's youth was marked by deep inquisitiveness and inquiry. Towards the end of the 1880s, Max Talmud, a Polish medical student who ...
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  Albert Einstein German-American physicist          Albert Einstein , (born March 14, 1879,  Ulm , Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955,  Princeton ,  New Jersey , U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of  relativity  and won the  Nobel Prize  for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photo electric effect  Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Albert Einstein QUICK FACTS View Media Page BORN March 14, 1879 boardinghouse in Munich and expected to finish his education. Alone, miserable, and repelled by the looming prospect of military duty when he turned 16, Einstein ran away six months later and landed on the doorstep of his surprised parents. His parents realized the enormous problems that he faced as a school dropout and draft dodger with no employable skills. His prospects did not look promising. Fortunately, Ei...
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