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Thursday, 3 January 2013
Einstein's name is certainly familiar to the ears of anyone. Similarly, the theory of relativity. However, research on brain physicist is certainly still a new thing and not many people know about it.But it turns out Albert Einstein's brain is often used as an object of research and speculation. The brain of the greatest figures in the physics of the 20th century was taken 7 hours after his death in 1955.The brain is attracted worldwide attention because of the reputation of Albert Einstein as a genius, and it seems abnormalities and characteristic in the brain has a strong correlation with the ability of intelligence that led to the creation of many brilliant ideas in the world of physics and mathematics.Regarding brain retrieval and preservation of this is to get permission from the concerned an extensive debate. In his biography, written by Ronald Clark (1971) puts it: "He agreed that his brain is used as an object of research and also asked that his body be cremated".But Ronald Clark's statement does not seem quite right, even making the brain too has not received permission from the family parties. Permission from her son Hans Albert Einstein was only given after the decision made, and even this approval if the brain is only used for research activities whose results were published in scientific journals of high quality.Prof. Marian Diamond who dissected Einstein's brain found that Einstein's brain is very similar to the brains of most people.Einstein's brain just a little more skilled in certain parts only.Prof. Marian Diamond is a brain anatomist, of the University of California at Berkeley, has spent the past six months just to study Einstein's brain. He was "fussing" sort out the physics of the brain and count the cells.On the left side of the brain of the genius is found more abundant glial cells for every neuron in the brain than normal. This may be a reason why Einstein was so smart, though Professor Diamond is not so sure.As an illustration, there are two types of cells in the human brain.Neuronal cells, which perform the task of thinking and set the nerve, whereas glial cells or neuroglia function provides "food" and perform work tasks that support neurons.Prof. Diamond got the idea to carry out the research after seeing a picture of Einstein's brain that has been preserved, which was published in a scientific magazine.The brain is preserved is owned by a pathologist from Missouri, United States. Thomas Hervey, the pathologist is one of the doctors who perform autopsies on these physicists, when Einstein died 18 April 1955 at the age of 76 years. It was not easy to care for brain preservation. The pathologist did not even intend to sell it. To persuade pathologist, Professor. Diamond take as long as three years. That is not all. The professor only get four small slices of the brain.However, Einstein's brain were only rediscovered in 1978 it received extensive attention, especially in the scientific world. The brain is in a stone bottle filled with a liquid apple juice (cider) for over 20 years.
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