Henry Abrams, 96, of Jersey Shore, who once was the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist's ophthalmologist, said he has the brilliant scientist's eyes stored in a jar of formaldehyde so he can see the "mysteries of the world," the New York Post reported Sunday.
"When you look into his eyes, you're looking into the beauties and mysteries of the world," Abrams said of his unusual keepsake. "They are clear as crystal; they seem to have such depth."
Abrams was given the eyes by pathologist Thomas Harvey, who removed Einstein's eyes and brain after his death in 1955. His brain is kept at Princeton University.
Another collector, John Kingsley Lattimer of Edgewater, N.J., purchased the genitals of famed French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, who ruled France during the 1800s.
The urologist bought the preserved sex organ for $2,900 in 1977 and then kept it stored under his bed for the next three decades, the Post said.
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