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When Albert Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76, his brain was removed and preserved for scientific study. Recently Professor Sandra F. Witelson and her colleagues at McMaster University, Canada, compared measurements of Einstein's brain with a control group of men and women whose brains were of normal intelligence.

In general, Einstein's brain was very much like the other brains except for one area called the inferior parietal lobe. In Einstein's brain, this area was 15% wider than those of the other brains studied. The inferior parietal lobe is important for processing visual and spatial information and mathematical ideas. The unusual development of this area may have been a reason Einstein was a genius.