The entire area and the road on which the university is located is full of well maintained buildings, some of them are from the 18th century. The entire area is buzzing with commercial activity. Princeton University is one of the 9 colonial colleges established before the advent of American Revolution. The university was founded in the year 1746 and it's alumni include President Woodrow Wilson, Richard Feynmann, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and First Lady of US, Michel Obama.
It is situated in few hundreds of acres, very old ,well maintained buildings, having huge, latest and ultramodern infrastructure , as they are not starved of funds unlike their Indian counter parts. And it has an excellent reputation world over in subjects like Humanities, social sciences and Engineering. But it doesn't have the courses like Law, Medicine, Divinity etc but they are being offered through Woodrow Wilson school of public & international affairs.
All this information, may not be that important, but the notable thing is that the brain of Mr Albert Einstein is preserved here for research. He died on 18/4/55 in Princeton hospital, attached to this university. We were told that the pathologist Dr Thamsey Harvey did autopsy on Einstein and removed the brain. He cut it into 240 pieces and preserved it over the years and subsequently he gave several pieces of the brain to researchers at the universities of Berkeley, Alabama etc. After going round various places Dr. Harvey came back to New Jersey in year 1996 and gave all the remaining pieces to the chief pathologist of Princeton hospital for doing further research.
Some say that Einstein gave his consent to donating his brain, but wanted not publish the findings. Few photos taken there are also appended . Since I felt this information may be of interest to some, I have shared it.
