This is a picture of Diamond, and I believe it’s fair to say his favorite student, and - Anyone recognize this student? [laughter]. This is Vivien Casagrande. Vivien came to work with Diamond just about the time that I was leaving Duke, and she was the first female that Diamond had ever had in his lab – and I think there were only two students ever that were female.
I think he had the bias that most departments were full of men and that they really worried about whether it was a good idea to have female students. But Vivien came to work at Duke because of Nauta because she took his neuroanatomy class at MIT and was enthralled and Wiesel told her to go to graduate school, and so Nauta thought she should go to Duke because Nauta so loved Duke that he sent his son there for undergraduate education. So he thought, she’s going to be great, send her down to work with Irving Diamond. And that was great for Duke, great for Diamond, and I hope good for Vivien as well. So despite the fact that she was a female, they got along well, [laughs] and did good research. Next Page