Brain Drain – Pierre-Henry Gomont
It’s not a glamorous profession at the best of times, but when the spotlight falls unexpectedly on pathologist Thomas Stolz of the Princeton hospital, you have to wonder whether he is up to the task. The corpse that has been put before him is none other than Professor Albert Einstein and everyone wants to know the cause of death of one of the greatest minds of our time. Stolz is also interested in that great mind and while carrying out the autopsy he has a sudden crazy notion to steal the brain of Albert Einstein. Despite Einstein’s express wishes not to leave his body to science, much less his brain, Stolz believes it’s his duty as a scientist to continue the search for.the advancement of human and scientific knowledge, or maybe his own career and fame. Probably mostly the latter. So he takes some work home with him, not telling anyone that the contents of the box he has brought down to his basement workshop contains probably the most famous brain in the world. Imagine if a second aut...