Albert Einstein's brain was removed and preserved after his death in 1955. The pathologist who performed the autopsy, Dr. Thomas Harvey, removed Einstein's brain without the permission of his family and kept it for research purposes. Harvey divided the brain into 240 pieces and stored them in jars of formalin. He hoped to find the physical basis of genius by studying Einstein's brain. However, no significant abnormalities were found, and Harvey's research did not yield any major breakthroughs.

Einstein's brain was eventually buried at Princeton Cemetery in New Jersey, where his body is also interred. The jars containing the pieces of his brain were interred with him.