![]() ![]() Einstein died April 18, 1955, at the age of 76 of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurism, and he got his wish as far as his bones were concerned his ashes were scattered in an undisclosed location. He made his wishes clear: "I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones". In his last years of life, Albert Einstein knew he was ill and refused operations that would save his life. Harvey performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 and retained parts of the brain for scientific study. Pathologist Thomas Harvey (1912-2007) holds the brain of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein in a jar in Kansas in 1994. ![]()
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