25 Facts About Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond was born on September 10,1937 and is an American scientist, historian, and author.

Jared Diamond's best known is Guns, Germs, and Steel, which received multiple awards including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.

Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology, Jared Diamond has published in many fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology.

Jared Diamond was a professor of geography at UCLA until his retirement in 2024.

Jared Diamond was born on September 10,1937 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Jared Diamond's father, Louis Diamond, was a physician who emigrated from Chisinau in present-day Moldova, then known as Bessarabia.

Jared Diamond's mother, Flora, was a teacher, linguist, and concert pianist.

Jared Diamond began studying piano at age six; years later, he would propose to his wife after playing Brahms' Intermezzo in A major for her.

Jared Diamond attended the Roxbury Latin School and studied biochemical sciences at Harvard College, graduating in 1958.

Jared Diamond later studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated from Cambridge with a Ph.

Later, in his fifties, Jared Diamond developed a third career in environmental history and became a professor of geography at UCLA, his current position.

Jared Diamond is a lecturer on the biodiversity management course at the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability in Rome.

Jared Diamond won the National Medal of Science in 1999.

Jared Diamond originally specialized in salt absorption in the gall bladder.

Jared Diamond has published scholarly works in the fields of ecology and ornithology, but is arguably best known for authoring a number of popular science and history books combining topics from diverse fields other than those he has formally studied.

Jared Diamond has written scores of academic peer-reviewed articles for publications such as the scientific journal Nature.

Jared Diamond has written scores of popular science articles in publications such as Discover, as well as several bestselling popular books, notably The Third Chimpanzee ; Guns, Germs, and Steel ; Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, and Upheaval.

When it was nominated, Jared Diamond was the only author to have won the award twice previously, though he did not win a third time.

In 2008, Jared Diamond published an article in The New Yorker entitled "Vengeance Is Ours", describing the role of revenge in tribal warfare in Papua New Guinea.

In 2010, Jared Diamond co-edited Natural Experiments of History, a collection of seven case studies illustrating the multidisciplinary and comparative approach to the study of history that he advocates.

The nations considered are Finland, Japan, Chile, Indonesia, Germany, Australia, and the US Jared Diamond identifies four modern threats: nuclear weapons, climate change, limited resources, and extreme inequality.

Daniel Immerwahr, reviewing for The New Republic, reports that Jared Diamond has "jettisoned statistical analysis" and the associated rigour, even by the standards of his earlier books, which have themselves sometimes been challenged on this basis.

Jared Diamond is married to Marie Cohen, granddaughter of Polish politician Edward Werner.

Eastern long-beaked echidna Zaglossus bartoni diamondi was named in honor of Jared Diamond, as was the frog Austrochaperina adamantina.