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Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einsteins Brain
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  • Title Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einsteins Brain
  • Author Carolyn Abraham
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books Canada, Toronto
  • Publication date 2002
  • ISBN 9780140293685 / 014029368X
  • Category Science
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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CAROLYN ABRAHAM began her career at The Ottawa Citizen and Southam News. Now the medical reporter for The Globe and Mail, she first broke the story of how Albert Einstein's brain had come to Canada. This was the basis for her book Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain. She has twice received a national award from the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association for investigative journalism, and is a winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association Science in Society Award for her reporting on the business of genetics. Carolyn Abraham lives in Toronto with her husband.

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Toronto: Penguin, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. 388, b/w illustrations.""Possessing Genius is the first comprehensive account of the circuitous path the brain took with Harvey during the decades it remained in his possession. Harvey permitted Einstein's gray matter to be sliced, diced, probed, prodded, and weighed by those hoping to solve the enigma, and locate the source, of genius itself. Einstein's…
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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… Read more
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