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UCLA School of Medicine
Biological Sciences
1999
"For his exceptionally
creative scholarship, including seminal research in physiology,
ecology, conservation biology, and history;
for
his outstanding role in communicating science by explaining technical
advances in widely understandable terms, and for his overwhelming
dedication to science's role in building a better future."
Presented by President William Clinton in a White
House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, March 14, 2000.
Diamond joined the UCLA faculty in 1966 as a professor
of physiology in the medical school. He is now a professor of geography
in the College of Letters and Science, Social Sciences division.
He received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1985 and the Pulitzer
Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs
and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. His most recent book
is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum based a major exhibition
on his work: Collapse? opened in May 2005.
 National Science Foundation Citation Page
Press release: Diamond to Receive National Medal
of Science
Jared
Diamond's UCLA Home Page (geography)
Natural History Museum exhibit based on Collapse
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