[Einstein, Albert. (1879 - 1955)]
Photograph of Einstein's Brain Waves!
Medical side view X-ray of Albert Einstein's skull, taken in 1945 by Dr. Gustav Bucky. In very fine condition. Printed on standard X-ray photograph stock, 10 x 12 inches (25.2 x 30.2 cm). We have been unable to positively identify when this print was made, but it is not one that either Bucky or Einstein owned and certainly dates from well after the original imaging. Another example of the present X-ray together with a peripheral view (both also later printings), sold on December 2010 at auction for $38,750.00.Gustav Bucky was a forerunner in radiograph technology and inventor of the Bucky Screen, which allowed for sharper radiograph images. Bucky and Einstein were co-inventors of the Automatic Electric Eye Camera. In 1933, like Einstein, Bucky, who in 1913 had developed a two-plate system that made x-rays a practical medical application, immigrated to the United States where the two met in 1933 while Bucky was treating Einstein’s wife, Elsa. They became close friends and Einstein helped Bucky patent some of his radiological inventions. Additionally, in 1935, they patented a camera that could automatically adjust for exposure using a photoelectric sensor; the camera was never built, however, and with the 1938 production of the automatic Super Six-20, Kodak was credited with creating the first automatic exposure camera. The two remained close friends, and Bucky was at Einstein’s bedside at the time of his death.
On November 16, 2012, in the journal Brain. Dean Falk of Florida State University, analyzed 14 photographs of Einstein’s brain, and noted the following, “Although the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein’s brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary.” (21190)
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