Well? in short, the man who did the autopsy on him took it home and kept it in a jar! For 43 years. Imagine that. When he turned 85, back in 1998, he gave it to the pathology department at University Medical Center at Princeton.
"Eventually, you get tired of the responsibility of having it. … I did about a year ago," Dr Thomas Harvey said, slowly. "I turned the whole thing over last year [in 1998]." (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
There's actually a book about it, and it is described here:
"Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain" by Michael Paterniti. In its 207 pages, the book tells the story of a loopy road trip the author made in a rented Buick Skylark with Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the Princeton Hospital pathologist who performed an autopsy on Einstein in 1955, and, in a Tupperware container in the car's trunk floating in a yellowish liquid, chunks of Einstein's brain.
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