on Cordova Street. On 1 February 1957, Diamond became a naturalized American citizen. Diamond admired his family, particularly his mother and her brothers. He described his mother as someone who had "sound common sense" who held up her own brothers as example of men who had "strength, gumption and ability". Diamond attributed his successful career to the pride he had for his uncles, Protassie (Tass) Comollatti, Tom Comollatti and Sam Comollatti. In a letter written from America to Tass Comollatti in 1964 Diamond wrote: "I am sure you realized that we thought very highly of you and that anything Stu, or Ron, or I achieved in this life was strongly influenced by the pride we took in our uncles at Duaringa. And the same was true of Harry." Death and legacy Diamond died on 5 April 2002. He was cremated and his ashes were interred in the family plot at the North Rockhampton Cemetery. After Diamond's death, his younger brother Ron, the last surviving Diamond sibling, established the Robert James Diamond Science Trust Scholarship in 2006 which is available to two students entering an undergraduate science program at Central Queensland University. The $1000 scholarship was established to help students with the cost of expenses such as text books in their first year of study. In 2000, Ron Diamond and his wife Helen had also established a $50,000 trust in his brother's name to help fund the non-profit Central Highlands Science Centre at the former post office building in Emerald as a way to commemorate the life and career of his brother. Speaking about his brother in 2002, Ron Diamond said: "For Jim, science and learning transcended all." In 2007, Ron Diamond was presented with a B-HERT high commendation for outstanding philanthropic contribution to tertiary education. Ron Diamond died at the age of 94 in 2015. Their brother Stu had died at the age of 59 in 1973. References 1916 births 2002 deaths California Institute of Technology alumni University of Queensland alumni Mathematics educators Australian mathematicians Australian physicists Australian educators People from Rockhampton