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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Einstein's Brain
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:40:04 -0000

http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion_223014.html
is a link to an article about the whereabouts of Einstein's brain.
Apparently it has been chopped up into approx 200 pieces. The article says
that many of the media stories about the brain have been in error, and it is
now being studied by pathologist Sandra Whitelson of Macmaster University,
who is comparing it with many other brains. These other brains were taken
from people who had been studied during their lives, in order to determine
any correlation with their behaviour in life with the anatomy of their
brains.

I had previously passed on some of the media errors in my column Comments
from Cornwall - hopefully this will correct these.

If in donating his brain to science Einstein had any hopes of reanimation,
these hopes have now been chopped to pieces.

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Sincerely, John de Rivaz
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people in Cornwall, music, Inventors' report, an autobio and various other
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