Albert Einstein’s connections to New York
City are a bit more morbid than you might
expect: his eyes are stored in a safety
deposit box in the city.


Preserving the body parts of the famous is not uncommon and
New York City area has the honor of having Napoleon’s penis (in a basement in New Jersey) and George Washington’s tooth in
Fraunces Tavern.

The story of Albert Einstein’s remains begins shortly after his death in 1955 at Princeton Hospital, where an illegal autopsy
was performed by Thomas Harvey, the pathologist of the hospital.

Harvey then sought and received a “retroactive blessing,” from Einstein’s son, Hans Albert
according to the book Postcards from the Brain Museum by Brian Burrell,excerpted on NPR, with the agreement that any research done would be for scientific purposes.


Throughout his life, Einstein
actively avoided celebrity and idolatry using his fame only to help others (like freely signing letters knowing his signature
would be sold, says Izzy Kazdin, the executive director of the Historical Society of Princeton). As Burrell also writes, Einstein
had specific instructions for his remains:“cremate them, and scatter the ashes secretly in order to discourage idolaters.”


Albert Einstein’s House at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, where he lived starting in 1935 Clearly the opposite has happened.

Harvey preserved Einstein’s brain (dividing it
somewhere between 170 and over 200
parts), while also removing his eyeballs,
which he gifted to Einstein’s eye
doctor, Henry Abrams. Einstein had been his
patient since 1939, upon the request of a
neighbor in Princeton. The two would
become confidants and activists together,
spending time in conversation in Einstein’s
house on Mercer Street and fundraising on
behalf of Israel Bonds and the United
Jewish Appeal.
Einstein’s brain spent time in a University of
Pennsylvania lab, in jars in Harvey’s
basement, and when Harvey moved to the
Midwest, “in a cider box stashed under a
beer cooler,” reports ABC News. He moved
around six more times, taking the brain
pieces with him, even after he lost his
medical license. At some point, he befriends
William S. Burroughs who would brag that
he had access to Einstein’s brain.
Proper scientific research was never done,
though Harvey often claimed it was taking
place, and Harvey at one point tried to gift it
Einstein’s granddaughter on an epic cross
country journey with a journalist but she
declined it.


In the end, he returned what he
had back to the Princeton hospital where
he performed the autopsy. In 1985, four
pieces were used in a study published
in the journal Experimental Neurology.



Another study was done in 1996, published
in Neuroscience Letters. Two pieces of the
brain ended up on display in London in
2012.




Einstein’s eyeballs have had a less
globetrotting route. It went from Harvey’s
hands, to Abrams and into the safe deposit
box, where it said to remain today though,
Burrell writes, are “frequently rumored to
be poised for the auction block.” Abrams
has countered the rumor however,
telling the Sun Sentinel in 1994, “Albert
Einstein was a very important part of my life
– a lasting influence. Having his eyes means
the professor’s life has not ended. A part of
him is still with me.“ Abrams died in
2009 at the age of 97.


https://untappedcities.com/2017/03/14/daily-what-einsteins-eyeballs-are-in-a-safety-deposit-box-in-nyc/



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This is disgusting

Necrophilia....