Albert Einstein

A physics giant and great man of history - Albert Einstein.

Born in Germany, Einstein won the Nobel prize for physics in 1921. There are a couple interesting facts about him that don't typically come up in conversations about his life.

His first wife, Mileva Marić was a Serb and was herself a physicist. He had three children with Mileva, one of whom (his son) had severe schizophrenia. His second wife, Elsa Löwenthal, was his first cousin on his mother's side. Even odder was that Elsa was ALSO his second cousin on his father's side of the family. They had no children together.

Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76. Before being cremated, a pathologist removed Einstein's brain in hopes that future science might discover what made Einstein so intelligent. Controversy surrounds Einstein's brain because it is believed that it was removed without permission.

Einstein's brain is somewhat different than "average" brains, slightly smaller in some areas, but over all 15% wider. To this day, Einstein's brain is preserved for study.