Editing Daniel Yergin (section)

==Early life and education==
Yergin was born on February 6, 1947,<ref name=ap-look>{{cite news|date=October 26, 2011|title=A look at historian and author Daniel Yergin|url=http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/cambridge/articles/2011/10/26/a_look_at_historian_and_author_daniel_yergin/|agency=[[Associated Press]]|access-date=December 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224150109/http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/cambridge/articles/2011/10/26/a_look_at_historian_and_author_daniel_yergin/|archive-date=December 24, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> in Los Angeles, California.<ref name=latimes-beyond/> His father Irving Yergin worked at [[Warner Brothers]] and was editor of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' and a former journalist in Chicago.<ref name=latimes-knows/> His mother Naomi Yergin was a sculptor and painter.<ref name=latimes-knows/> He attended [[Beverly Hills High School]].<ref name=latimes-knows>{{cite news |last=Parrish |first=Michael  |date=January 9, 1993 |title=He Knows Oil : Daniel Yergin Built a Company and Penned a Best-Selling History |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-09-fi-1042-story.html | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California, United States |access-date=December 22, 2017}}</ref><ref name=latimes-beyond>Redburn, Tom. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/652246772.html?dids=652246772:652246772&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Aug+19%2C+1979&author=TOM+REDBURN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc='Energy+Future'+Goes+Beyond+Ivory+Tower&pqatl=google "'Energy Future' Goes Beyond Ivory Tower"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160218213838/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/158953803.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug%2019,%201979&author=TOM%20REDBURN&pub=Los%20Angeles%20Times&edition=&startpage=&desc=%27Energy%20Future%27%20Goes%20Beyond%20Ivory%20Tower |date=February 18, 2016 }}, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', August 19, 1979. Retrieved December 15, 2007. "Fifteen years ago, Daniel Yergin left Beverly Hills High School to attend Yale University and, except for summer jobs and brief visits, he hasn't been back here since."</ref> He received his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Yale University]]<ref name=ihs-execs/><ref name=penn/> in 1968,<ref name=newjournal>{{cite news |date=April 22, 2013 |title=A Conversation with Daniel Yergin |url=http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/2013/04/a-conversation-with-daniel-yergin/ | work=[[The New Journal]] |access-date=December 23, 2017}}</ref><ref name=ap-look/> where he wrote for the ''[[Yale Daily News]]'' and was founder of ''[[The New Journal]]''<ref name="Ringle"/> in 1967.<ref name=newjournal/> 

He received his M.A. in 1970<ref name=ap-look/> and his Ph.D. in [[World history (field)|international history]] from [[Cambridge University]], where he was a [[Marshall Scholarship|Marshall Scholar]].<ref name=newjournal/><ref name=ihs-execs/><ref name=council-foreign/> While at Cambridge, he wrote for various British magazines as well as ''[[The Atlantic]]'',<ref name="Ringle"/> where he was a contributing editor,<ref name=nyt-dudley>{{cite news |last=Clendinen |first=Dudley |date=October 22, 1982 |title=In Boston, Days of Literary Renewal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/22/us/in-boston-days-of-literary-renewal.html?mcubz=1 | work=[[The New York Times]] |location= New York City, new York, United States|access-date=December 23, 2017}}</ref> and ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]''.<ref name="Ringle"/> He has honorary doctorates from [[Dartmouth College]],<ref name=ogfj-honorary>{{cite news |date=April 15, 2016 |title=Daniel Yergin to receive honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College |url=http://www.ogfj.com/articles/2016/04/daniel-yergin-to-receive-honorary-doctorate-from-dartmouth-college.html |work=Oil and Gas Financial Journal |access-date=December 22, 2017 |archive-date=December 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223102041/http://www.ogfj.com/articles/2016/04/daniel-yergin-to-receive-honorary-doctorate-from-dartmouth-college.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Colorado School of Mines]],<ref name=mines>{{cite news  |title=Commencement 2008  |url=http://magazine.mines.edu/2008/Summer/Features/commencement_2008.html|work=Colorado School of Mines |location=Colorado, United States |access-date=December 22, 2017}}</ref> [[University of Houston]], and the [[University of Missouri]].<ref name=cnbc-yergin>{{Citation|title=Daniel Yergin |date=March 12, 2010 |publisher=[[CNBC]]  |url=https://www.cnbc.com/daniel-yergin/|access-date=December 22, 2017 }}</ref>