Einstein's Brain was Pickled in a Jar for 43 Years and Driven Cross Country in a Trunk of a Buick

After his death in 1955, Einstein's brain was removed - without permission from his family - by Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the Princeton Hospital pathologist who conducted the autopsy. 

Harvey took the brain home and kept it in a jar. He was later fired from his job for refusing to relinquish the organ

In the early 1990s, Harvey went with freelance writer Michael Paterniti on a cross-country trip to California to meet Einstein's granddaughter. 

They drove off from New Jersey in Harvey's Buick Skylark with Einstein's brain sloshing inside a jar in the trunk.

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