We all know about Albert Einstein's reputation as one of the smartest scientists and physists of the last century. What we haven't understood is why or how he was so smart.

A team of researchers at East China Normal University decided to find this out for themselves by conducting a study on Einstein's brain. The results were particularly interesting considering that others never did this before. The group found that Einstein was fortunate enough to have one of the most high-functioning brains a person could ask for.

"Men and his cohorts compared the measurements with those of the brains of 67 other deceased adults who had been born the same year as Einstein," said Rick Docksai, a reporter for The Science Recorder. "The conclusion: Einstein's brain surpassed all of the others in the connectivity between his brain's hemispheres and their various regions.

Researchers did what nobody has done before in the way they studied Einstein's brain.

"This study, more than any other to date, really gets at the 'inside' of Einstein's brain," Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dr. Dean Falk said. "It provides new information that helps make sense of what is known about the surface of Einstein's brain."

Einstein moved from Germany to the United States as World War II was nearing. He warned U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt of the possibility of another country attacking the U.S. with atomic bombs, and as a result, he became a central piece of the nation's efforts to build atomic bombs. He did not support using the bombs but had said that he wanted to make sure the U.S. was defending itself against other possible attacks.

Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.