13 Facts About Marian Diamond

Marian Cleeves Diamond was an American neuroscientist.

Marian Diamond was a professor of anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Marian Diamond's father was an English physician and her mother a Latin teacher at Berkeley High School.

Marian Diamond spent a summer at the University of Oslo after graduating.

Marian Diamond became the first woman science instructor at Cornell University teaching human biology and comparative anatomy from 1955 to 1958.

UC Berkeley invited Marian Diamond to be an assistant professor in 1965, progressing later to be a full professor, and finally, professor emeritus until her death in 2017.

Marian Diamond was a pioneer in anatomical neuroscience whose major scientific contributions have changed forever how we view the human brain.

Marian Diamond produced the first scientific evidence of anatomical neuroplasticity in the early 1960s.

Marian Diamond showed that the structural components of the cerebral cortex can be altered by either enriched or impoverished environments at any age, from prenatal to extremely old age.

In early 1984, Marian Diamond received four blocks of the preserved brain of Albert Einstein from Thomas Stoltz Harvey.

The fact that the Einstein brain tissue was already embedded in celloidin when the Marian Diamond lab received it meant that their choice of methods of examination would be somewhat limited.

Marian Diamond married Richard Martin Marian Diamond in 1950 and they had four children: Catherine Theresa, Richard Cleeves, Jeff Barja, and Ann.

My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr Marian Diamond is a 2017 documentary about Diamond's life as a pioneering woman of science, her curiosity and passion for the human brain, as well as her research and love of teaching.