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Didn't Einstein have a specific term in his will that people were NOT to meddle with his brain ?

The consent has been a matter of debate for years - there is a story that, while Einstein's family donated his brain for research (he specified that his body be cremated and the ashes scattered) but the research results were to be published only in "recognised scientific journals"

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The consent has been a matter of debate for years.
The story goes that while Einstein's family donated his brain for research he had specified that his body be cremated and the ashes scattered. The family's proviso was that the research results were to be published only in "recognised scientific journals"

I say ! "That's a scientific journal. I recognise it. Yes siree."

einstiens last words were lost for posterity, he said something in german and the american nurse didn't understand him

I thought they were "Krankenschwester stehen Sie auf meiner Lufttube"

something about standing on my air pipe/tube

The way around you have it, it's an imperative! I doubt he was ordering her to do so...

It would have to be "Schwester, Sie stehen auf meinem Luftschlauch"

Perhaps we're talking assisted suicide.

Oh, I haven't written up the story or scored this yet, have I? I'll do that tonight.

B

I never passed my German O level - and that was 40 years ago - I haven't improved since.

I just thought it was an entertaining mistake. Amazing how a simple reversal of word order can change the meaning that much!

Had me giggling all morning.....

I once had a translation book of phrases that might be useful on holiday, that included.


My friend has just been struck on the epiglottis by a Frisbee!

and

Help! My pedelo has just been overturned by a freak tidal wave!

"your standing on my windpipe" reminded me of those.

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Very briefly, the pathologist who did the PM on Einstein removed his brain without consent. He photographed it from several angles, and the sliced it and preserved it. He stored it for years, giving sections to various researchers to study. No detectable abnormalities were found for decades until recently. A few years before he died, he gave the brain back to Princeton, where he had been working when he stole it.

Google it, it's interesting.

Ben