biologist ecologist physiologist writer
Ethnicity:
Dimond's parents were of East European Jewish ancestries who emigrated to the United States.
Jared was born on September 10, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is the son of Louis K. Diamond, a physician, and Flora K. Diamond, a teacher, linguist and pianist.
Diamond attended the Roxbury Latin School. He also finished Harvard University in 1958 and attained Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemical sciences. Three years later, in 1961 Jared obtained Doctor of Philosophy in physiology, graduating from Cambridge University.
Jared started his career as an associate in biophysics at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States in 1965 and held the post till 1966, when he started to work as an associate professor of physiology at University of California Medical School in Los Angeles. Diamond occupied this position till 1968, when he became a professor at the same medical school. Later, he started to develop his career in environmental history and became a professor of geography at University of California Medical School in Los Angeles and he is still holding this position.
Diamond served as a research associate at American Museum of Natural History, Department of Ornithology since 1973. Beginning from 1985 Jared worked as a research associate at Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
Currently Jared Diamond works as a lecturer at Free International University for Social Studies "Guido Carli" in Rome. He also holds the post of United States regional director of the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Diamond has also worked out some scholarly works in the fields of ecology and ornithology.
In 1978 Diamond was named a Kroc Foundation lecturer by Western Association of Physicians.
Jared obtained Los Angeles Times Book Prize for "The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal" in 1992.
Diamond got Pulitzer Prize for "Guns, Germs, and Steel" in 1998.
In 2005 he was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.
In 2016 Diamond was named a Humanist of the Year by American Humanist Association.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences , United States
American Ornithologists Union , United States
American Physiological Society , United States
Biophysics Society , United States
American Society of Naturalists , United States
American Philosophical Society , United States
Trinity College , United Kingdom
1961 - 1965
Harvard Society of Fellows , United States
1962 - 1965
National Science Foundation , United States
1958 - 1962
National Academy of Sciences
Diamond is a polymath.
Jared married Marie M. Cohen in 1982. The couple has two children – Max and Joshua.
