In Search of Genius Dr Thomas Harvey conducts Albert Einstein’s autopsy The body itself was perfectly ordinary of course, just as I expected. But here between my hands I raise a gift, an offering which is held before me, like a sacrifice. I set it down with reverence, noting familiar features – see the cerebellum with its fissures closely set, transverse and curved. All appears normal, for now. So to the cortex. Accompany me – let us walk around the hemispheres enjoy their glistening surfaces: the superolateral and the medial (the inferior is presently hidden) following folds, traversing sulci – across the longitudinal fissure I skim, an arctic explorer on my sled over hills and valleys, there is so much awaiting discovery. I pick up my knife, the round-ended one, as I search for the genius that lived and died here. The slices begin. Each falls away softly like cheese. A key hole appears gradually growing into a chambe