Later, impressed by the beauty of the state, he regularly spent his own family holidays there, and Montana and the Bitterroot Valley became one of the key examples in his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed In summer 1956, as a college student, he returned to the ranch to work. Īt the age of 15 for the first time his parents took him outside of the eastern U.S., to Montana, where they spent holidays at the Hirschy's family ranch on Big Hole River. This became one of his major life-passions and resulted in a number of works published in ornithology. Īlready at the age of seven he developed an interest in bird-watching. Years later, he would propose to his wife after playing the Brahms Intermezzo in A major for her. His father, Louis Diamond, was a physician who emigrated from Chișinău, (present-day Moldova, then known as Bessarabia), and his mother, Flora (Kaplan), a teacher, linguist, and concert pianist. Both of his parents were from Ashkenazi Jewish families who had emigrated to the United States. Early life and education ĭiamond was born on September 10, 1937, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals. Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology, Diamond is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology.

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991) Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize) Collapse (2005), The World Until Yesterday (2012), and Upheaval (2019). (secondary url) primary url: Concentrating activity of the gall-bladder (1961) Physiology, biophysics, ornithology, environmentalism, history, ecology, geography, evolutionary biology, and anthropology

Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2001).

Royal Society Prize for Science Books (1992, 1998 & 2006).

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