Albert Einstein’s Brain Is In Rittenhouse Square

Seriously.  The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia located in Center City at 19 South 22nd Street in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood has just made the acquisition of a lifetime.  The Mutter Museum recently announced that 46 microscope slide containing slices from Albert Einstein’s brain are now part of their permanent collection.  Multiple sets of slides containing Albert Einsteins brain were prepared in 1955 in the pathology lab of Dr. William Ehrich, Chief of Pathology at the Philadelphia General Hospital. One set was given to Dr. Ehrich by Thomas Harvey, MD, the physician who performed the post-mortem exam on Einstein at Princeton Hospital.  After Ehrich’s death the slides were passed to Dr. Allen Steinberg who passed them to Lucy Rorke-Adams, a Neuropathologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.  Luckily for us the slides will now call Rittenhouse Square home.

Rittenhouse Square Real Estate

Rittenhouse Square is one of the five original open-space parks planned for Center City, Philadelphia by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas Holme during the late 17th century.   The Rittenhouse Square neighborhood boundaries, for real estate purposes, are Broad Street to the East, Market Street to the North, South Street to the South, and 22nd Street to the West.  Rittenhouse Square was originally called Southwest Square and was later renamed to honor David Rittenhouse, a prominent Philadelphia clockmaker and astronomer.

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