Diary Illuminates Einstein's Last Years

b00le writes "Several sources carry versions of this story about the diary of Johanna Fantova who shared much of the last years of Einstein's life (and cut his hair) and witnessed his kindness and poltical activisim. The diary does not seem to have been translated from the German yet, but the site has extracts. According to this, Fantova tried to publish the diaries herself and of course failed to find an agent."

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"Am looking for Einstein brain"

[Jacco de Leeuw]

I once saw a documentary about a Japanese professor who was obsessed to find out what had happened to the obducted brain of Einstein. Travelled all over the world, spoke in broken English but he did succeed in finding at least some parts of the brains.

Peculiar guys, those Japanese...