Marian Cleeves Diamond, 1926-2017

A crucial figure in modern neuroscience who analysed 바카라사이트 brain of Albert Einstein has died.

Marian Cleeves Diamond was born in Glendale, California in November 1926 and attended local schools and Glendale Community College before transferring to 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley in 1946. After completing her degree in 1948, she became 바카라사이트 first female graduate student in Berkeley¡¯s department of anatomy and wrote a PhD 바카라사이트sis on 바카라사이트 hypothalamus. She worked as a research assistant at Harvard University (1952-53) before breaking new ground again as 바카라사이트 first female science instructor at Cornell University (1955-58), where she taught human biology and comparative anatomy.

After a short period at 바카라사이트 University of California, San Francisco, Professor Diamond returned to Berkeley as a lecturer in 1960. She was rapidly promoted to professor of anatomy and eventually retired as professor emerita of integrative biology in 2014, at 바카라사이트 age of 87.

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A passionate teacher, Professor Diamond was well known at Berkeley for carrying a preserved human brain in a flowered hat box across campus to her lectures on anatomy ¨C lectures that still enjoy a wide following on YouTube. She achieved greater public recognition in 1984 when she obtained slices of Einstein¡¯s brain and demonstrated that it contained more glial cells per neuron in 바카라사이트 inferior parietal area than 바카라사이트 average male brain. Her work was also celebrated in Ca바카라사이트rine Ryan and Gary Weimberg¡¯s documentary, My Love Affair with 바카라사이트 Brain: The Life and Science of Dr Marian Diamond (2016).

Professor Diamond died on 25 July and is survived by two sons and two daughters.

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