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==Career== After graduation from Cambridge, Diamond returned to Harvard as a [[Harvard Society of Fellows#Junior Fellows|Junior Fellow]] until 1965, and, in 1968, became a professor of physiology at [[David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA|UCLA Medical School]]. While in his twenties he developed a second, parallel, career in ornithology and [[ecology]], specialising in [[New Guinea]] and nearby islands, which he began visiting from 1964.<ref name="ReferenceA" /> Later, in his fifties, Diamond developed a third career in [[environmental history]] and became a professor of [[geography]] at UCLA, his {{as of | 2013 | alt = current}} position.<ref name="ecosmos">{{Cite web |title=The Prizewinner 1998 |url=https://www.expo-cosmos.or.jp/english/cosmos/jyusyou/1998.html |access-date=15 September 2023 |website=[[International Cosmos Prize]] |publisher=Expo '90 Foundation}}</ref> He also teaches at [[Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli|LUISS Guido Carli]] in Rome.<ref>{{cite web |title=Geografia Politica |url=http://www.luiss.it/cattedreonline/corso/M120/0/2R2LMRR/2015 |access-date=March 8, 2019 |work=[[LUISS Guido Carli]]}}</ref> He is a lecturer on the [[biodiversity management]] course at the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability (EIIS) in Rome.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Manager della Biodiversità |url=https://www.eiis.eu/manager-della-biodiversita |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=eiis.eu |language=en}}</ref> He won the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |title=The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details |url=https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=103 |access-date=2023-09-29 |work=[[National Science Foundation]]}}</ref> He has been invited to give two [[TED (conference)|TED talks]], "Why do societies collapse" (2008), and "How societies can grow old better (2013).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/jared_diamond|title=Jared Diamond, Civilization Scholar|publisher=[[TED (conference)|TED]]|accessdate=April 15, 2024}}</ref> Diamond originally specialized in salt absorption in the [[gall bladder|gallbladder]].<ref name="diamondphd" /><ref name="NPR"> {{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/09/08/140297259/understanding-history-with-guns-germs-and-steel |title=Understanding History With 'Guns, Germs, And Steel' |work=[[NPR]] |date=September 8, 2011 |access-date=March 8, 2019}}</ref> He has also published scholarly works in the fields of ecology and ornithology,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Symes |first1=C. T. |last2=Hughes |first2=J. C. |last3=Mack |first3=A. L. |last4=Marsden |first4=S. J. |date=Jan 2006 |title=Geophagy in birds of Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Papua New Guinea |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2005.00002.x |journal=Journal of Zoology |language=en |volume=268 |issue=1 |pages=87–96 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.2005.00002.x |issn=0952-8369|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Diamond |first1=Jared |author-link=Jared Diamond |last2=Bishop |first2=K. David |last3=Gilardi |first3=James D. |date=June 2008 |title=Geophagy in New Guinea birds |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1999.tb07540.x |journal=Ibis |language=en |volume=141 |issue=2 |pages=181–193 |doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1999.tb07540.x|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 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. Because of this academic diversity, Diamond has been described as a polymath.<ref> {{cite web |title=Human Stars |url=http://www.abc.net.au/animals/human_stars.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507092547/http://www.abc.net.au/animals/human_stars.htm |archive-date=May 7, 2011 |access-date=March 8, 2019 |work=The Animal Attraction |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Rapa Nui déjà vu |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |url=https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2009/10/08/rapa-nui-deja-vu |access-date=2023-09-30 |issn=0013-0613}}</ref>
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