On April 18, 1955, the pathologist performing the autopsy on Albert Einstein covertly steals the genius's brain, hoping to uncover the secret of brilliance. His good intentions and scientific ambitions collide with harsh realities as his world crumbles.
Steven Levy is an American journalist. In the 1970s, he worked as a senior editor of New Jersey Monthly, where he was assigned to track down the Einstein's stolen brain. In August 1978, he published an article titled I Found Einstein's Brain. In 1982, he published a Rolling Stone story on computer hackers that drew him into the world of technology. He published multiple books on the subject: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984), Artificial Life (1992), Crypto (2001), and Facebook: The Inside Story (2020). He also wrote a book on Ira Einhorn titled The Unicorn's Secret (1988).