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Jared Diamond
| Jared Diamond | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 September 1937 (1937-09-10) (age 75) Boston |
| Occupation | Professor of Geography at UCLA, Nonfiction writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Writing period | 1972- |
| Subjects | Evolutionary Biology Environmentalism Geography Anthropology Linguistics |
Jared Mason Diamond (b.
10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel (1998), which also won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.
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He received the National Medal of Science in 1999.
Biography
Diamond was born in Boston of Polish-Jewish heritage, to a physician father and a teacher/musician/linguist mother. After attending the Roxbury Latin School, he earned a BA degree from Harvard in 1958 and his PhD in physiology and membrane biophysics from Cambri