Jared Diamond Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

Pulitzer Prize (1998) International Cosmos Prize (1998) National Medal of Science (1999) Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2001) Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2013)

Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author reputed for his highly acclaimed and popular science books. He has penned down eight books and a number of academic monographs. The fields he covers are varied from ecology to evolutionary biology and from geography to anthropology. Some of his notable books are The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies.

His book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, translated in thirty-three different languages, garnered sales of millions of copies across the globe. While the book shot him to global fame it also fetched him the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1998 apart from other prizes. He travelled to Africa, Australia, Asia, North America and South America for his field projects that include twenty-two expeditions to the New Guinea and its neighbouring islands. He made path-breaking studies of the birds of Papua New Guinea.

He received the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant in 1985. Diamond received several awards including the Zoological Society of San Diego Conservation Medal (1993), International Cosmos Prize (1998) and National Medal of Science (1999). He was ranked 9th among top 100 public intellectuals in the polls conducted by two magazines namely Foreign Policy and Prospect in 2005. At present he is serving at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a Professor of Geography.