Talk:Thomas Stoltz Harvey

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A Travel Book[edit]

I recommend Driving Mr. Albert for further reading.

I don't recommend it and who are you? The book's author trying to help book sales? Mr. Albert, incidentally, is the nickname Thomas Harvey had for Einstein's brain. Here's an excerpt from Driving Mr. Albert that the New York Times had which describes Thomas Harvey's theft of Einstein's brain during the 1955 autopsy. Here, the New York Times said, the author "shares a bit of the pathologist's ghoulish greed:"

He [Thomas Stoltz Harvey] cracked the skull like a coconut, he removed a cap of bone, peeled back the viscous meninges, and snipped the connecting blood vessels and nerve bundles and the spinal cord. And then, at last, there it was. A huge, rough pearl. He reached with his fingers into the chalice of the man's cranium and removed the glistening brain. TL36 (talk) 08:59, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is fascinating[edit]

I personally recommend Carolyn Abraham "Possessing Genius" (ISBN number 1-84046-625-1) as this is a more detailed book.

I hope there are other people who visit this page? Claire Lawton

I just read an article in discover magazine that Harvey kept Einstein's brain in a jar labeled Costa Cider. I'm too lazy to cite the magazine, but I think that should be in the article.Celsiana 16:38, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the citation for 170 pieces (that the brain was cut into?) If you search Einsteins Brain on here that article says 240 pieces and has 2 citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.248.144.236 (talk) 14:34, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, according to Albert Einstein's Brain page it says that he was fired shortly thereafter for not relinquishing the organs yet this page mentions nothing about it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.248.144.236 (talk) 14:41, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is not only shocking but perhaps infuriating -- evidence shows that not only did Harvey keep the collection at his apartment, but that he also nonchalantly sliced a piece of Einstein's brain-stem and cerebellum using nothing more than a [non-hermetically sealed] cutting-board and a kitchen knife at the request of Japanese professor Sugimoto Kenji, for his colloquium, in the 1990s. Evidence is posted on YouTube by user `crack2668', ``Einstein's Brain part 6, 2006/08/03. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ulxEGlw5w&NR=1. Fast forward to 4:38. I was Godsmacked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowfalcon cu (talk • contribs) 08:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This stuff seems to be simple barbarism. I can imagine the doctor's CV. Sounds like this. Studied pathology at blablabla.. practiced it in blablabla ... my hobby is cutting and conservating Einstein's brain. Fuck that shit.

3 out of 5 external links doesn't work. 92.204.91.103 (talk) 00:07, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Stoltz Harvey is guilty of both theft and desecration of a corpse[edit]

I am amazed and disgusted that no one in authority even considered pressing charges against this man. Instead, it's like he is celebrated for committing a double felony. Other than the weight of Einstein's brain, there is little, if any knowledge, to be gained by the dissecting work done by subsequent pathologists. I can't help but think of some of Josef Mengele's worthless experiments. How enragingly ironic.TL36 (talk) 08:30, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]