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...April 1955 pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy at Princeton (N.J.) Hospital on the cadaver of Albert Einstein. After determining that Einstein died of a burst aneurysm in the abdominal aorta, Dr. Harvey veered just a bit from protocol by making a circular incision in the great man's head, removing the 2.7-lb. brain and dissecting it into 240 pieces before taking the 20th century's most important gray matter home in a glass jar filled with formaldehyde...
...hasn't practiced medicine in decades--all because of his zealous dedication to the chunks of brain. Now, at 84, Harvey is the kind of wonderfully flawed character writers pray for, and Paterniti's luck has only begun. Turns out the doctor wants to visit (and make peace with?) Einstein's daughter Evelyn in Berkeley, Calif. Faster than you can say movie rights, Paterniti, Harvey and Einstein's brain, now floating in a Tupperware container, are off to California in a rented Buick Skylark...
...there, but for the most part he's left to observe that Harvey is indeed quite a riddle. Driving Mr. Albert's provenance as a magazine article--albeit a National Magazine Award-winning one--becomes painfully clear when Paterniti resorts to rehashing a few well-known biographical details about Einstein, musing about the (yawn) magic of the road and relating the minutiae of his girlfriend trouble, all seemingly to stretch his tale to book length. Driving Mr. Albert's best recurring joke is that Harvey changes the subject whenever the author asks to pop off the Tupperware lid so that...
...fact, nanotechnology has an impeccable and longstanding scientific pedigree. It was back in 1959 that Richard Feynman, arguably the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, gave a talk titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," in which he suggested that it would one day be possible to build machines so tiny they would consist of just a few thousand atoms. (The term nanotechnology comes from nanometer, or a billionth of a meter; a typical virus is about 100 nanometers across...