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This travel book tells the true story of how, in 1997, writer Michael Paterniti agreed to take a road trip from New Jersey to California, reuniting the preserved brain of the great scientist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) with his granddaughter Evelyn. Paterniti's travelling companion is 84-year-old Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who not only removed Einstein's brain from his head during the autopsy but also purloined it from Princeton Hospital. Storing the great scientist's brain in a Tupperware zipped inside a grey duffel-bag, they rent a Buick Skylark, and drive from New Jersey to Ohio, Kansas City to Dodge City, Los Alamos to Las Vegas, finally achieving their bizarre reunion in Berkeley, California.
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Driving Mr Albert, Michael Paterniti
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- Driving Mr Albert
- Subtitle
- A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Paterniti
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 211
- ISBN10
- 034911241X
- ISBN13
- 9780349112411
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Fiction, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Science, USA, Biographies, Stories, Travelling
- Description
- This travel book tells the true story of how, in 1997, writer Michael Paterniti agreed to take a road trip from New Jersey to California, reuniting the preserved brain of the great scientist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) with his granddaughter Evelyn. Paterniti's travelling companion is 84-year-old Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who not only removed Einstein's brain from his head during the autopsy but also purloined it from Princeton Hospital. Storing the great scientist's brain in a Tupperware zipped inside a grey duffel-bag, they rent a Buick Skylark, and drive from New Jersey to Ohio, Kansas City to Dodge City, Los Alamos to Las Vegas, finally achieving their bizarre reunion in Berkeley, California.