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| | TIME REPORTS: UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY |
 | | Yet while there clearly had to be something remarkable about Einstein's brain, the pathologist who removed it from the great physicist's skull after his death reported that the organ was, to all appearances, well within the normal range--no bigger or heavier than anyone else's. |
 | | When Einstein died of a ruptured abdominal aneurysm in 1955, at the age of 76, the pathologist who did the autopsy at Princeton Hospital, Dr. Thomas Harvey, removed the brain, pickled it in formaldehyde--and kept it. |
 | | We know Einstein was a genius, and we now know that his brain was physically different from the average. |
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