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Albert Einstein's brain was donated to science by Einstein himself.

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Einstein's brain was removed without permission by pathologist Thomas Harvey during the autopsy in 1955. Harvey kept it in jars for decades and only returned it to Princeton Hospital years later.

Source: National Museum of Health and Medicine

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