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Eduard EinsteinEduard Einstein (July 28, 1910 Zurich, October 25, 1965 Zurich) is the second son of Albert Einstein (18791955) and Mileva Maric (18751948). He was born on July 28, 1910 in Zurich. From his mother he received the nickname Tete. Eduard was a sensitive child who was often ill. Einstein and his family moved to Berlin in 1914. As Mileva didnt like Berlin and the marriage with Einstein was broken, she decided to move to Zurich with her sons only a short time later. They got divorced in 1919. Eduard and especially his older brother Hans Albert (19041973) suffered a lot from the divorce of their parents. In Zurich Mileva took care of the education of her sons. Eduard, a very talented pupil, made an especially good impression due to his highly intellectual and musical talent. Despite the separation, Einstein often visited his sons and Mileva in Zurich. He also undertook little journeys with his sons. Eduard passed his A-levels in 1929 as one of the best students. Afterwards he began to study medicine. He wanted to become a psychiatrist. At the age of twenty, Eduard began to suffer from schizophrenia. That happened in 1930. Mileva took care of her Tete lovingly. He had to go to Burghlzli, a psychiatric sanatorium in Zurich, for the first time in 1932. But it shouldnt be for the last time. Eduard abandoned his studies. The problems with her ill son and the high costs caused by the stays in the sanatorium were a great burden for Mileva . Albert Einstein and his second wife Elsa emigrated to the United States in the autumn of 1933. There he found a new working place in Princeton, New Jersey. Eduards brother, Hans Albert, and his family went also to the United States in 1938. From 1948 on, after the death of his mother, Eduard lived constantly in Burghlzli where he died in 1965. He survived his father by ten years. Recent research carried out by Sandra Witelson detected a unusual brain anomaly in his father, which shows no normal groove (sulcus) in the inferior parietal region. Albert Einstein's brain was 15 per cent wider than the other brains studied in this region. Visuospatial cognition, mathematical thought, and imagery of movement are strongly dependent on this region. External links - http://www.einstein-website.de/biographies/einsteineduard.html
- http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/courier/aug1699/news.html
References The exceptional brain of Albert Einstein Sandra F Witelson, Debra L Kigar, Thomas Harvey Lancet 1999; 353: 21495
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