When Albert Einstein died in 1955, his brain was secretly removed during his autopsy by pathologist Dr. Thomas Stoltz Harvey without permission from Einstein’s family. Harvey preserved and sliced the brain into hundreds of pieces, hoping to uncover the source of Einstein’s genius. For decades, scientists studied these samples, examining neuron density and unusual structures in the parietal lobe linked to mathematical and spatial reasoning. Some claimed his brain had more glial cells, while other