Post by B on Mar 30, 2012 8:51:24 GMT -5
Albert Einstein's Brain on Display at London Wellcome Exhibition 
www.ibtimes.com/articles/320537/20120328/albert-einstein-brain-display-london-exhibition.htm
By Sangeetha Seshagiri | Mar 28, 2012 03:09 AM EDT
"Albert Einstein's brain will go on display for the first time at an exhibition in London.
The Wellcome Collection in London will display part of the scientist's brain alongside that of Charles Babbage and two murderers William Burke and Edward Rulloff at the Mind as Matter exhibition.
After his death in 1955, Einstein's brain was divided into sections. Two sections will be featured at the Wellcome display.
"This single fragile organ has become the object of modern society's most profound hope, fears and beliefs - and some of the most extreme practices and advanced technologies," Marius Kwint, the show's co-curator, told Reuters.
"The different ways in which we have treated and represented real physical brains open up a lot of questions about our collective minds," he added.
Primitve brain surgery tools will also go on display including a trephine with a wooden handle and shark tooth blade for cutting through the skull.
The exhibition also features a 5,000-year-old skull with holes drilled through it, which shows how long humans have been performing brain surgery.
The exhibition runs from 29 March-17 June."
www.ibtimes.com/articles/320537/20120328/albert-einstein-brain-display-london-exhibition.htm
By Sangeetha Seshagiri | Mar 28, 2012 03:09 AM EDT
"Albert Einstein's brain will go on display for the first time at an exhibition in London.
The Wellcome Collection in London will display part of the scientist's brain alongside that of Charles Babbage and two murderers William Burke and Edward Rulloff at the Mind as Matter exhibition.
After his death in 1955, Einstein's brain was divided into sections. Two sections will be featured at the Wellcome display.
"This single fragile organ has become the object of modern society's most profound hope, fears and beliefs - and some of the most extreme practices and advanced technologies," Marius Kwint, the show's co-curator, told Reuters.
"The different ways in which we have treated and represented real physical brains open up a lot of questions about our collective minds," he added.
Primitve brain surgery tools will also go on display including a trephine with a wooden handle and shark tooth blade for cutting through the skull.
The exhibition also features a 5,000-year-old skull with holes drilled through it, which shows how long humans have been performing brain surgery.
The exhibition runs from 29 March-17 June."
