9 Chapter 8 A Final Thought

Chapter 8 A Final Thought Albert left these instructions upon his death: donate my brain to science, cremate my body, and throw the ashes in some secret place. This was done. So where is Albert's brain now? After Albert died, an autopsy was done on his body. In the process, the doctor, Thomas Harvey, removed Albert's brain studied it, decided that there was nothing all that special about it, and set it aside in a bottle of formaldehyde.

阿尔贝临终时留下这样的遗言:把我的大脑捐献给科学，把我的身体火化，把骨灰扔到一个秘密的地方。 这件事完成了。那么艾伯特的大脑现在在哪里? 阿尔伯特死后，对他的尸体进行了尸检。 在这个过程中，医生托马斯·哈维(Thomas Harvey)取出了阿尔伯特的大脑，对它进行了研究，认为它没有什么特别之处，然后把它放在了一瓶甲醛中。

Later, when Dr. Harvey moved to Wichita, Kansas, he took the brain with him. He kept the brain, which was in pieces, in two jars inside a cardboard box labeled "Cider." Since then, further studies by several medical researchers have found Albert's brain to be a bit more interesting than Dr. Harvey did. (Dr. Harvey provided the researchers with pieces of the brain.) Albert's brain weighed less than the average brain, was 15 percent wider, and had an unusual set of grooves. Yet the importrance of these differences remains unknown. Harvey kept the brain with him for over forty years. One time, Harvey and Michael Paterniti, an author, put the brain in the trunk of a car and drove it all the way to California so that a piece of it could be given to Albert's granddaughter, Evelyn. Soon after that trip, Harvey turned the brain over to a Princeton hospital where it continues to float around in a jar. You have to wonder what Albert would think of that!

后来，当哈维博士搬到堪萨斯州的威奇托时，他把大脑也带走了。 他把大脑分成几块，装在两个罐子里，放在一个写着“苹果酒”的纸板箱里。 从那以后，几位医学研究人员的进一步研究发现，阿尔伯特的大脑比霍金博士的大脑更有趣。 哈维。(哈维博士为研究人员提供了大脑的碎片。)阿尔伯特的大脑比一般人的大脑轻，宽15%，并且有一组不同寻常的凹槽。 然而，这些差异的重要性仍然未知。 哈维把他的大脑带在身边四十多年了。 有一次，哈维和作家迈克尔·帕特尼蒂(Michael Paterniti)把他的大脑放在一辆汽车的后备箱里，一路开到加州，好把其中的一块送给阿尔伯特的孙女伊芙琳(Evelyn)。 那次旅行后不久，哈维把大脑交给了普林斯顿的一家医院，在那里它继续在一个罐子里漂浮。 你一定想知道阿尔伯特会怎么想!

Albert Einstein 1879–1955

阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦1879-1955