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The Cerebral Cortex of Albert Einstein: A Description and Preliminary Analysis of Unpublished Photographs. Dean Falk, Frederick E. Lepore and Adrianne Noe in Brain, Vol. 136, No. 4, pages 1304 ...

When an extraordinary cache of love letters written by Albert Einstein to his first wife between 1898 and 1903 went up for auction last December, the historic collection was expected to fetch up ...

Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. He became a U.S. citizen in 1940 and died in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955. (Getty Images) ...