Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond
Diamond in 2013
Born	Jared Mason Diamond (1937-09-10) September 10, 1937 (age 86) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA) Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD)
Awards	MacArthur Genius Grant (1985) Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1997) Pulitzer Prize (1998) International Cosmos Prize (1998) National Medal of Science (1999) Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2001) Royal Society Prize for Science Books (1992, 1998, 2006) Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Physiology, biophysics, ornithology, environmental science, history, ecology, geography, evolutionary biology, and anthropology
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	Concentrating activity of the gall-bladder (1961)

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and he has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books. His best known is Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. He has over 50 articles published in the scientific journal Nature, as well as a similar number in the popular magazine Discover. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.^[1]

Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology,^[2] Diamond is commonly referred to as a polymath, stemming from his knowledge in many fields including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology.^[3][4] In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science, an honor bestowed by the President of the United States and the National Science Foundation. As of 2024, he is a professor of geography at UCLA.^[5]