Editing Jared Diamond (section)

{{Short description|American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Jared Diamond
| image             = Jared Diamond author academic.jpg
| caption           = Diamond in 2016
| birth_name        = Jared Mason Diamond
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1937|9|10|mf=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date        = 
| death_place       = 
| citizenship       = 
| nationality       = 
| fields            = [[Physiology]], [[biophysics]], [[ornithology]], [[environmental science]], [[history]], [[ecology]], [[geography]], [[evolutionary biology]], and [[anthropology]]
| workplaces        = [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
| education         = {{ubl|[[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])|[[Trinity College, Cambridge]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}
| thesis_title      = Concentrating activity of the gall-bladder
| thesis_url        = https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/16u99e0/44CAM_ALMA21429605800003606
| thesis_year       = 1961
| doctoral_advisor  = 
| academic_advisors = 
| doctoral_students = 
| notable_students  = 
| known_for         = 
| author_abbrev_bot = 
| author_abbrev_zoo = 
| awards            = {{ubl
|[[MacArthur Fellowship]] (1985)
|[[Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science]] (1997)
|[[1998 Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize]] (1998)
|[[International Cosmos Prize]] (1998)
|[[National Medal of Science]] (1999)
|[[Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement]] (2001)
|[[Royal Society Prizes for Science Books|Royal Society Prize for Science Books]] (1992, 1998, 2006)
|[[Wolf Prize in Agriculture]] (2013)
}}
| signature         = 
| footnotes         = 
| website           = 
}}

'''Jared Mason Diamond''' (born September 10, 1937)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/jared-diamond-man-knows-too-much | title=The Man Who Knows Too Much }}</ref> is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Genius Grant]], and he has written [[Jared Diamond bibliography|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 nonfiction. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]'' and ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 15, 2005 |title=Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals Results |work=[[Foreign Policy]] |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2005/10/15/prospectfp-top-100-public-intellectuals-results/ |access-date=2023-09-29}}</ref> 

Originally trained in [[biochemistry]] and [[physiology]],<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite book |last=Diamond |first=Jared |title=Collapse |title-link=Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |publisher=Viking Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-14-303655-5 |author-link=Jared Diamond}}</ref> Diamond has published in many fields, including [[anthropology]], [[ecology]], [[geography]], and [[evolutionary biology]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rothenberg |first=Randall |author-link=Randall Rothenberg |date=July 1, 2001 |title=Jared Diamond: The Thought Leader Interview |url=https://www.strategy-business.com/article/20101 |access-date=2023-09-29 |website=[[strategy+business]] |language=en-us |agency=[[Booz & Company]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Anthony |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Anthony |date=2019-04-21 |title=Jared Diamond: So how do states recover from crises? Same way as people do |language=en-GB |work=[[The Observer]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/21/jared-diamond-upheaval-migration-minorities-how-countries-solve-crisis |access-date=2023-09-30 |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> In 1999, he received the [[National Medal of Science]], an honor bestowed by the [[President of the United States]] and the [[National Science Foundation]]. He was a professor of geography at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] until his retirement in 2024.<ref name="TheLifeScientific">{{Cite web |last=Al-Khalili |first=Jim |author-link=Jim Al-Khalili |date=4 Dec 2012 |title=Jared Diamond |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p3k5q |website=[[The Life Scientific]] |postscript=;}} {{Cite web |date=12 Jan 2013 |title=Jared Diamond |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012s40n |website=Discovery}}</ref>