Jared Diamond

Diamond in 2016

Born|

Jared Mason Diamond

(1937-09-10) September 10, 1937 (age 88)

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Education|

* Harvard University (BA)
* Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD)

Awards|

* MacArthur Fellowship (1985)
* Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1997)
* Pulitzer Prize (1998)
* International Cosmos Prize (1998)
* National Medal of Science (1999)
* Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2001)
* Royal Society Prize for Science Books (1992, 1998, 2006)
* Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2013)

Scientific career
Fields| Physiology, biophysics, ornithology, environmental science, history, ecology, geography, evolutionary biology, and anthropology
Institutions| University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis| Concentrating activity of the gall-bladder (1961)

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937)[1] is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.[2]

Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology,[3] Diamond has published in many fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology.[4][5] In 1985, he received a MacArthur Genius Grant and in 1999, the National Medal of Science, an honor bestowed by the President of the United States and the National Science Foundation. He was a professor of geography at UCLA until his retirement in 2024.[6] Anthropologists have criticized his work as “shallow,” saying he overemphasizes geography and climate.[7]

## Contents

* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Career
* 3 Selected popular works
* 3.1 The Third Chimpanzee (1991)
* 3.2 Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997)
* 3.3 Why is Sex Fun? (1997)
* 3.4 Collapse (2005)
* 3.5 "Vengeance is Ours" controversy (2008)
* 3.6 Natural Experiments of History (2010)
* 3.7 The World Until Yesterday (2012)
* 3.8 Upheaval (2019)
* 4 Personal life
* 5 Reception
* 6 Selected memberships
* 7 Selected honors
* 8 Selected bibliography
* 9 See also
* 10 References
* 11 External links

## Early life and education

Diamond was born on September 10, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were both Eastern European Jewish immigrants. His father, Louis Diamond, was a physician who emigrated from Chișinău in present-day Moldova, then known as Bessarabia. His mother, Flora nee Kaplan, was a teacher, linguist, and concert pianist.[8][9] Diamond began studying piano at age six; years later, he would propose to his wife after playing Brahms' Intermezzo in A major for her.[10]

By the age of seven he developed an interest in birdwatching.[3] This became one of his major life passions and resulted in a number of works published in ornithology.[11] He attended the Roxbury Latin School and studied biochemical sciences at Harvard College, graduating in 1958. He later studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated from Cambridge with a Ph.D. in 1961; his thesis was on the physiology and biophysics of membranes in the gallbladder.[6][12][13]

## Career

After graduation from Cambridge, Diamond returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow until 1965, and, in 1968, became a professor of physiology at 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.[3] Later, in his fifties, Diamond developed a third career in environmental history and became a professor of geography at UCLA, his current[update] position.[13] He also teaches at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome.[14] He is a lecturer on the biodiversity management course at the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability (EIIS) in Rome.[15] He won the National Medal of Science in 1999.[16] He joined Richard J. Evans to discuss "History as Science" on In Our Time.[17] He gave two TED talks, "Why do societies collapse" (2008), and "How societies can grow old better (2013).[18]

Diamond originally specialized in salt absorption in the gallbladder.[12][19] He has also published scholarly works in the fields of ecology and ornithology,[20][21] 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.[22][23]

## Selected popular works

Diamond has written scores of academic peer-reviewed articles for publications such as the scientific journal Nature. He has also written scores of popular science articles in publications such as Discover, as well as several bestselling popular books, notably The Third Chimpanzee (1991); Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); Collapse (2005), The World Until Yesterday (2012), and Upheaval (2019). For a full list, see Jared Diamond bibliography § Books.

### The Third Chimpanzee (1991)

Diamond's first popular book, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1991), examines human evolution and its relevance to the modern world, incorporating evidence from anthropology, evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, and linguistics. The book traces how humans evolved to be so different from other animals, despite sharing over 98% of our DNA with our closest animal relatives, the chimpanzees. The book also examines the animal origins of language, art, agriculture, smoking and drug use, and other apparently uniquely human attributes. It was well received by critics and won the 1992 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science Books[24] and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.[25]

### Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997)

His second and best known popular science book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, was published in 1997. It asks why Eurasian peoples conquered or displaced Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, and not the other way around. It argues that this outcome was not due to genetic advantages of Eurasian peoples themselves but instead to features of the Eurasian continent, in particular, its high diversity of wild plant and animal species suitable for domestication and its east/west major axis that favored the spread of those domesticates, people, technologies—and diseases—for long distances with little change in latitude.[citation needed]

The first part of the book focuses on reasons why only a few species of wild plants and animals proved suitable for domestication. The second part discusses how local food production based on those domesticates led to the development of dense and stratified human populations, writing, centralized political organization, and epidemic infectious diseases. The third part compares the development of food production and of human societies among different continents and world regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel became an international best-seller, was translated into 33 languages, and received several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, an Aventis Prize for Science Books[24] and the 1997 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.[26] A television documentary series based on the book was produced by the National Geographic Society in 2005.[27][28]

The book is controversial among anthropologists.[29]

### Why is Sex Fun? (1997)

In his third book, Why is Sex Fun?, also published in 1997, Diamond discusses evolutionary factors underlying features of human sexuality that are generally taken for granted but that are highly unusual among our animal relatives. Those features include a long-term pair relationship (marriage), coexistence of economically cooperating pairs within a shared communal territory, provision of parental care by fathers as well as by mothers, having sex in private rather than in public, concealed ovulation, female sexual receptivity encompassing most of the menstrual cycle (including days of infertility), female menopause, and distinctive secondary sexual characteristics.[30]

### Collapse (2005)

Diamond's next book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, published in 2005, examines a range of past societies in an attempt to identify why they either collapsed or continued to thrive and considers what contemporary societies can learn from these historical examples. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, he argues against explanations for the failure of past societies based primarily on cultural factors, instead focusing on ecology. Among the societies mentioned in the book are the Norse and Inuit of Greenland, the Maya, the Anasazi, the indigenous people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Japan, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and modern Montana.

The book concludes by asking why some societies make disastrous decisions, how big businesses affect the environment, what our principal environmental problems are today, and what individuals can do about those problems. Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse was translated into dozens of languages, became an international best-seller, and was the basis of a television documentary produced by the National Geographic Society.[31] Collapse was also nominated for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.[24] When it was nominated, Diamond was the only author to have won the award twice previously,[32] though he did not win a third time.

Fifteen archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and historians from the American Anthropological Association criticized Diamond's methods and conclusions, working together with the larger association to publish the book Questioning Collapse as a counter to Diamond's claims.[33] In response, Diamond, as an editor at the time for the journal Nature, published an official review in the journal negatively covering the book,[34] without mentioning that the book was a critique of his own work. The authors and the publisher, Cambridge University Press, called out Diamond for his conflict of interest on the subject.[35][36]

Jared Diamond in 2007

### "Vengeance is Ours" controversy (2008)

In 2008, Diamond published an article in The New Yorker entitled "Vengeance Is Ours",[37] describing the role of revenge in tribal warfare in Papua New Guinea. A year later, two indigenous people mentioned in the article filed a lawsuit against Diamond and The New Yorker, claiming the article defamed them.[38][39][40] In 2013, The Observer reported that the lawsuit "was withdrawn by mutual consent after the sudden death of their lawyer."[9]

### Natural Experiments of History (2010)

In 2010, Diamond co-edited (with James Robinson) Natural Experiments of History, a collection of seven case studies illustrating the multidisciplinary and comparative approach to the study of history that he advocates. The book's title stems from the fact that it is not possible to study history by the preferred methods of the laboratory sciences, i.e., by controlled experiments comparing replicated human societies as if they were test tubes of bacteria. Instead, one must look at natural experiments in which human societies that are similar in many respects have been historically perturbed. The book's afterword classifies natural experiments, discusses the practical difficulties of studying them, and offers suggestions on how to address those difficulties.[41]

### The World Until Yesterday (2012)

Diamond in 2013

### Upheaval (2019)

In Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change Diamond examines whether nations can find lessons during crises in a way like people do. The nations considered are Finland, Japan, Chile, Indonesia, Germany, Australia, and the U.S.[42] Diamond identifies four modern threats: nuclear weapons, climate change, limited resources, and extreme inequality.[43]

Anand Giridharadas, reviewing for The New York Times, claimed the book contained many factual inaccuracies.[44] Daniel Immerwahr, reviewing for The New Republic, reports that Diamond has "jettisoned statistical analysis" and the associated rigour, even by the standards of his earlier books, which have themselves sometimes been challenged on this basis.[45]

## Personal life

Diamond is married to Marie Cohen, granddaughter of Polish politician Edward Werner. They have twin sons, born in 1987.[6] Although Diamond is a non practicing Jew and has described religion as irrational,[46] he and his wife attend High Holiday services.[47]

## Reception

While Diamond's writings have received considerable praise,[29] they are controversial among anthropologists, with his argumentation having been described as "shallow", with criticism suggesting that Diamond overemphasises the importance of environmental factors like geography and climate over other influences.[29][48][7]

Ian McEwan included "Jared Diamond's melding of history with biological thought in Guns Germs & Steel" in his canon of science writing.[49]

## Selected memberships

* Editorial board of Skeptic, a magazine of The Skeptics Society[50]
* Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[51]
* Member of the National Academy of Sciences[52]
* Member of the American Philosophical Society[53]
* Board of Directors of the World Wildlife Fund[54]

## Selected honors

* 1992 Tanner Lecturer, University of Utah[55]
* 1992 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science Books for The Third Chimpanzee[24]
* 1997 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize for Guns, Germs and Steel
* 1998 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Guns, Germs and Steel[56][57]
* 1998 California Book Awards, Gold Medal in nonfiction for Guns, Germs and Steel
* 1998 Aventis Prize for Science Books for Guns, Germs and Steel[24]
* 1998 International Cosmos Prize[13]
* 1999 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
* 1999 National Medal of Science[58]
* 2001 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
* 2002 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
* 2004 A foreign holder of honorary title of Academician[59] in Academy of Finland
* 2005 Elected Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, England[60]
* 2006 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for Collapse (shortlisted)[24]
* 2006 Dickson Prize in Science
* 2008 PhD Honoris Causa at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* 2013 Wolf Prize in Agriculture[61]
* 2016 American Humanist Association Humanist of the Year

Eastern long-beaked echidna Zaglossus bartoni diamondi was named in honor of Jared Diamond,[62] as was the frog Austrochaperina adamantina.[63]

## Selected bibliography

* 1992: The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (ISBN 0-06-098403-1-)
* 1993: "Ten Thousand Years of Solitude" Discover Magazine; March 1993
* 1997: Why Is Sex Fun? (ISBN 0-465-03127-7)
* 1997: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (ISBN 978-0-099-30278-0). Also published with the title Guns, germs and steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years (ISBN 978-0099302780)
* 2005: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (ISBN 978-0241958681)
* 2010: Natural Experiments of History, with James A. Robinson (ISBN 0-674-03557-7)
* 2012: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (ISBN 978-0141024486)
* 2015: The Third Chimpanzee for Young People: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (ISBN 9781609806118)
* 2019: Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change (ISBN 978-0316409131)

## See also

* Assembly rules
* Comparative history
* Environmental determinism
* List of important publications in anthropology

## References

1. ↑ "The Man Who Knows Too Much". https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/jared-diamond-man-knows-too-much.
2. ↑ "Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals Results". Foreign Policy. October 15, 2005. https://foreignpolicy.com/2005/10/15/prospectfp-top-100-public-intellectuals-results/.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Diamond, Jared (2005). Collapse. Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-14-303655-5.
4. ↑ Rothenberg, Randall (July 1, 2001). "Jared Diamond: The Thought Leader Interview" (in en-us). https://www.strategy-business.com/article/20101.
5. ↑ Anthony, Andrew (2019-04-21). "Jared Diamond: So how do states recover from crises? Same way as people do" (in en-GB). The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/21/jared-diamond-upheaval-migration-minorities-how-countries-solve-crisis.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Al-Khalili, Jim (4 Dec 2012). "Jared Diamond". https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p3k5q; "Jared Diamond". 12 Jan 2013. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012s40n.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 King, Barbara J. (17 January 2013). "Why Does Jared Diamond Make Anthropologists So Mad?". NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/01/14/169374400/why-does-jared-diamond-make-anthropologists-so-mad.
8. ↑ Burkeman, Oliver (October 24, 2014). "Jared Diamond: 'Humans, 150,000 years ago, wouldn't figure on a list of the five most interesting species on Earth' | Jared Diamond | the Guardian". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/24/jared-diamond-bestselling-biogeographer-answers-critics.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 McKie, Robin (January 5, 2013). "Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life". The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/06/jared-diamond-tribal-life-anthropology.
10. ↑ Berkeley, Michael (3 Mar 2013). "Jared Diamond". https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r0ywj.
11. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Diamond, Jared (2001). The Birds of Northern Melanesia. Color Plates by H. Douglas Pratt. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514170-2. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-birds-of-northern-melanesia-9780195141702?cc=us&lang=en&#.
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13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "The Prizewinner 1998". Expo '90 Foundation. https://www.expo-cosmos.or.jp/english/cosmos/jyusyou/1998.html.
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24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 "Prize for Science Books previous winners and shortlists". http://royalsociety.org/bookspage.asp?id=6372.
25. ↑ "Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners: Science & Technology". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/extras/bookprizes/winners_byaward.html#science.
26. ↑ "1997 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award". http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_Infoview.aspx?t=&id=57.
27. ↑ Lovgren, Stefan (July 6, 2005). "'Guns, Germs and Steel': Jared Diamond on Geography as Power". National Geographic. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0706_050706_diamond.html.
28. ↑ "Guns Germs & Steel: The Show. Overview". https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/show/index.html.
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Jaschik, Scott (2 August 2005). "'Guns, Germs, and Steel' Reconsidered" (in en). https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/03/guns-germs-and-steel-reconsidered.
30. ↑ Diamond, Jared (1997). Why Is Sex Fun?. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-03127-6.
31. ↑ "Perspectives on Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". Current Anthropology 46 (S5): S91–S99. 2005. doi:10.1086/497663. ISSN 0011-3204. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/497663.
32. ↑ Pauli, Michelle (2006-04-13). "Diamond in the running for Aventis hat-trick" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2006/apr/13/awardsandprizes.scienceandnature.
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34. ↑ Diamond, Jared (February 2010). "Two views of collapse". Nature 463 (7283): 880–881. doi:10.1038/463880a. Bibcode: 2010Natur.463..880D.
35. ↑ "Puttin' the Objective in Objectivity". Cambridge University Press. March 8, 2010. http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2010/03/puttin-the-objective-in-objectivity/.
36. ↑ Smith, Sydney (March 23, 2010). "Cambridge U Press backs authors against Jared Diamond's Nature review". https://www.imediaethics.org/cambridge-u-press-backs-authors-against-jared-diamonds-nature-review/.
37. ↑ Diamond, Jared (14 April 2008). "Vengeance Is Ours". The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/vengeance-is-ours.
38. ↑ Balter, Michael (May 2009). "'Vengeance' Bites Back at Jared Diamond". Science 324 (5929): 872–874. doi:10.1126/science.324_872. PMID 19443760.
39. ↑ Maull, Samuel (April 22, 2009). "Author Jared Diamond sued for libel". The Huffington Post. Associated Press. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090422/us-jared-diamond-lawsuit/.
40. ↑ Smillie, Dirk (October 19, 2009). "Fresh Legal Jab At 'The New Yorker'". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/2009/10/18/papua-jared-diamond-business-media-new-yorker.html.
41. ↑ Diamond, Jared, ed (2010). Natural Experiments of History. Belknap Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvjghwf6. ISBN 978-0-674-06019-7. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674060197.
42. ↑ Hughes, Ian (May 11, 2019). "Upheaval review: How countries seldom learn from their past". The Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/upheaval-review-how-countries-seldom-learn-from-their-past-1.3883396.
43. ↑ Martindale, David (May 9, 2019). "Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond to discuss new book, 'Upheaval,' in Dallas". https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/books/2019/05/09/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-jared-diamond-to-discuss-new-book-upheaval-in-dallas/.
44. ↑ Giridharadas, Anand (May 17, 2019). "What to Do When You're a Country in Crisis". https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/upheaval-jared-diamond.html.
45. ↑ Immerwahr, Daniel (June 11, 2019). "All Over the Map". The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/154142/jared-diamond-upheaval-book-review. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
46. ↑ "Jared Diamond: It's irrational to be religious". January 13, 2013. https://www.salon.com/2013/01/13/jared_diamond_its_irrational_to_be_religious/.
47. ↑ Malley, JP O’. "Diamond polishes position on ancient-modern culture war". ISSN 0040-7909. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-culture-clash-brings-diamond-into-the-rough/.
48. ↑ Davis, Wade (2013-01-09). "The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/09/history-society.
49. ↑ McEwan, Ian (April 1, 2006). "A Parallel Tradition". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/apr/01/scienceandnature.richarddawkins.
50. ↑ "Editorial Board". https://www.skeptic.com/magazine/editorial_board/.
51. ↑ "Jared Mason Diamond" (in en). https://www.amacad.org/person/jared-mason-diamond.
52. ↑ "Jared M. Diamond". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/56326.html.
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54. ↑ "Leadership" (in en). https://www.worldwildlife.org/about/leadership.
55. ↑ "Tanner lecturer will present on Tuesday". SUU News. Southern Utah University. March 4, 2012. http://www.suunews.com/news/2012/mar/04/tanner-lecturer-will-present-tuesday/.
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58. ↑ Schmidt, Elaine (January 30, 2000). "UCLA Physiologist Dr. Jared Diamond Wins National Medal of Science". UCLA Newsroom. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/UCLA-Physiologist-Dr-Jared-Diamond-1454.aspx?RelNum=1454.
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60. ↑ "Honorary Fellows". Trinity College. 2013. http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=204.
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63. ↑ Zweifel, R. G. (2000). "Partition of the Australopapuan microhylid frog genus Sphenophryne with descriptions of new species". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 253: 1–130. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)253<0001:POTAMF>2.0.CO;2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/324513.

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Biological sciences

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1963
C. B. van Niel
1964
Marshall W. Nirenberg
1965
Francis P. Rous
George G. Simpson
Donald D. Van Slyke
1966
Edward F. Knipling
Fritz Albert Lipmann
William C. Rose
Sewall Wright
1967
Kenneth S. Cole
Harry F. Harlow
Michael Heidelberger
Alfred H. Sturtevant
1968
Horace Barker
Bernard B. Brodie
Detlev W. Bronk
Jay Lush
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
1969
Robert Huebner
Ernst Mayr

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1970s|

1970
Barbara McClintock
Albert B. Sabin
1973
Daniel I. Arnon
Earl W. Sutherland Jr.
1974
Britton Chance
Erwin Chargaff
James V. Neel
James Augustine Shannon
1975
Hallowell Davis
Paul Gyorgy
Sterling B. Hendricks
Orville Alvin Vogel
1976
Roger Guillemin
Keith Roberts Porter
Efraim Racker
E. O. Wilson
1979
Robert H. Burris
Elizabeth C. Crosby
Arthur Kornberg
Severo Ochoa
Earl Reece Stadtman
George Ledyard Stebbins
Paul Alfred Weiss

1980s|

1981
Philip Handler
1982
Seymour Benzer
Glenn W. Burton
Mildred Cohn
1983
Howard L. Bachrach
Paul Berg
Wendell L. Roelofs
Berta Scharrer
1986
Stanley Cohen
Donald A. Henderson
Vernon B. Mountcastle
George Emil Palade
Joan A. Steitz
1987
Michael E. DeBakey
Theodor O. Diener
Harry Eagle
Har Gobind Khorana
Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988
Michael S. Brown
Stanley Norman Cohen
Joseph L. Goldstein
Maurice R. Hilleman
Eric R. Kandel
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1989
Katherine Esau
Viktor Hamburger
Philip Leder
Joshua Lederberg
Roger W. Sperry
Harland G. Wood

1990s|

1990
Baruj Benacerraf
Herbert W. Boyer
Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
Edward B. Lewis
David G. Nathan
E. Donnall Thomas
1991
Mary Ellen Avery
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Elvin A. Kabat
Salvador Luria
Paul A. Marks
Folke K. Skoog
Paul C. Zamecnik
1992
Maxine Singer
Howard Martin Temin
1993
Daniel Nathans
Salome G. Waelsch
1994
Thomas Eisner
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
1995
Alexander Rich
1996
Ruth Patrick
1997
James Watson
Robert A. Weinberg
1998
Bruce Ames
Janet Rowley
1999
David Baltimore
Jared Diamond
Lynn Margulis

2000s|

2000
Nancy C. Andreasen
Peter H. Raven
Carl Woese
2001
Francisco J. Ayala
Mario R. Capecchi
Ann Graybiel
Gene E. Likens
Victor A. McKusick
Harold Varmus
2002
James E. Darnell
Evelyn M. Witkin
2003
J. Michael Bishop
Solomon H. Snyder
Charles Yanofsky
2004
Norman E. Borlaug
Phillip A. Sharp
Thomas E. Starzl
2005
Anthony S. Fauci
Torsten N. Wiesel
2006
Rita R. Colwell
Nina Fedoroff
Lubert Stryer
2007
Robert J. Lefkowitz
Bert W. O'Malley
2008
Francis S. Collins
Elaine Fuchs
J. Craig Venter
2009
Susan L. Lindquist
Stanley B. Prusiner

2010s|

2010
Ralph L. Brinster
Shu Chien
Rudolf Jaenisch
2011
Lucy Shapiro
Leroy Hood
Sallie Chisholm
2014
May Berenbaum
Bruce Alberts
2015
Stanley Falkow
Rakesh K. Jain
Mary-Claire King
Simon Levin

Chemistry

| 1980s|

1982
F. Albert Cotton
Gilbert Stork
1983
Roald Hoffmann
George C. Pimentel
Richard N. Zare
1986
Harry B. Gray
Yuan Tseh Lee
Carl S. Marvel
Frank H. Westheimer
1987
William S. Johnson
Walter H. Stockmayer
Max Tishler
1988
William O. Baker
Konrad E. Bloch
Elias J. Corey
1989
Richard B. Bernstein
Melvin Calvin
Rudolph A. Marcus
Harden M. McConnell

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1990s|

1990
Elkan Blout
Karl Folkers
John D. Roberts
1991
Ronald Breslow
Gertrude B. Elion
Dudley R. Herschbach
Glenn T. Seaborg
1992
Howard E. Simmons Jr.
1993
Donald J. Cram
Norman Hackerman
1994
George S. Hammond
1995
Thomas Cech
Isabella L. Karle
1996
Norman Davidson
1997
Darleane C. Hoffman
Harold S. Johnston
1998
John W. Cahn
George M. Whitesides
1999
Stuart A. Rice
John Ross
Susan Solomon

2000s|

2000
John D. Baldeschwieler
Ralph F. Hirschmann
2001
Ernest R. Davidson
Gábor A. Somorjai
2002
John I. Brauman
2004
Stephen J. Lippard
2006
Marvin H. Caruthers
Peter B. Dervan
2007
Mostafa A. El-Sayed
2008
Joanna Fowler
JoAnne Stubbe
2009
Stephen J. Benkovic
Marye Anne Fox

2010s|

2010
Jacqueline K. Barton
Peter J. Stang
2011
Allen J. Bard
M. Frederick Hawthorne
2014
Judith P. Klinman
Jerrold Meinwald
2015
A. Paul Alivisatos
Geraldine L. Richmond

Engineering sciences

| 1960s|

1962
Theodore von Kármán
1963
Vannevar Bush
John Robinson Pierce
1964
Charles S. Draper
1965
Hugh L. Dryden
Clarence L. Johnson
Warren K. Lewis
1966
Claude E. Shannon
1967
Edwin H. Land
Igor I. Sikorsky
1968
J. Presper Eckert
Nathan M. Newmark
1969
Jack St. Clair Kilby

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1970s|

1970
George E. Mueller
1973
Harold E. Edgerton
Richard T. Whitcomb
1974
Rudolf Kompfner
Ralph Brazelton Peck
Abel Wolman
1975
Manson Benedict
William Hayward Pickering
Frederick E. Terman
Wernher von Braun
1976
Morris Cohen
Peter C. Goldmark
Erwin Wilhelm Müller
1979
Emmett N. Leith
Raymond D. Mindlin
Robert N. Noyce
Earl R. Parker
Simon Ramo

1980s|

1982
Edward H. Heinemann
Donald L. Katz
1983
Bill Hewlett
George Low
John G. Trump
1986
Hans Wolfgang Liepmann
Tung-Yen Lin
Bernard M. Oliver
1987
Robert Byron Bird
H. Bolton Seed
Ernst Weber
1988
Daniel C. Drucker
Willis M. Hawkins
George W. Housner
1989
Harry George Drickamer
Herbert E. Grier

1990s|

1990
Mildred Dresselhaus
Nick Holonyak Jr.
1991
George H. Heilmeier
Luna B. Leopold
H. Guyford Stever
1992
Calvin F. Quate
John Roy Whinnery
1993
Alfred Y. Cho
1994
Ray W. Clough
1995
Hermann A. Haus
1996
James L. Flanagan
C. Kumar N. Patel
1998
Eli Ruckenstein
1999
Kenneth N. Stevens

2000s|

2000
Yuan-Cheng B. Fung
2001
Andreas Acrivos
2002
Leo Beranek
2003
John M. Prausnitz
2004
Edwin N. Lightfoot
2005
Jan D. Achenbach
Tobin J. Marks
2006
Robert S. Langer
2007
David J. Wineland
2008
Rudolf E. Kálmán
2009
Amnon Yariv

2010s|

2010
Shu Chien
2011
John B. Goodenough
2014
Thomas Kailath

Mathematical, statistical, and computer sciences

| 1960s|

1963
Norbert Wiener
1964
Solomon Lefschetz
H. Marston Morse
1965
Oscar Zariski
1966
John Milnor
1967
Paul Cohen
1968
Jerzy Neyman
1969
William Feller

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1970s|

1970
Richard Brauer
1973
John Tukey
1974
Kurt Gödel
1975
John W. Backus
Shiing-Shen Chern
George Dantzig
1976
Kurt Otto Friedrichs
Hassler Whitney
1979
Joseph L. Doob
Donald E. Knuth

1980s|

1982
Marshall Harvey Stone
1983
Herman Goldstine
Isadore Singer
1986
Peter Lax
Antoni Zygmund
1987
Raoul Bott
Michael Freedman
1988
Ralph E. Gomory
Joseph B. Keller
1989
Samuel Karlin
Saunders Mac Lane
Donald C. Spencer

1990s|

1990
George F. Carrier
Stephen Cole Kleene
John McCarthy
1991
Alberto Calderón
1992
Allen Newell
1993
Martin David Kruskal
1994
John Cocke
1995
Louis Nirenberg
1996
Richard Karp
Stephen Smale
1997
Shing-Tung Yau
1998
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
1999
Felix Browder
Ronald R. Coifman

2000s|

2000
John Griggs Thompson
Karen Uhlenbeck
2001
Calyampudi R. Rao
Elias M. Stein
2002
James G. Glimm
2003
Carl R. de Boor
2004
Dennis P. Sullivan
2005
Bradley Efron
2006
Hyman Bass
2007
Leonard Kleinrock
Andrew J. Viterbi
2009
David B. Mumford

2010s|

2010
Richard A. Tapia
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
2011
Solomon W. Golomb
Barry Mazur
2014
Alexandre Chorin
David Blackwell
2015
Michael Artin

Physical sciences

| 1960s|

1963
Luis W. Alvarez
1964
Julian Schwinger
Harold Clayton Urey
Robert Burns Woodward
1965
John Bardeen
Peter Debye
Leon M. Lederman
William Rubey
1966
Jacob Bjerknes
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Henry Eyring
John H. Van Vleck
Vladimir K. Zworykin
1967
Jesse Beams
Francis Birch
Gregory Breit
Louis Hammett
George Kistiakowsky
1968
Paul Bartlett
Herbert Friedman
Lars Onsager
Eugene Wigner
1969
Herbert C. Brown
Wolfgang Panofsky

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1970s|

1970
Robert H. Dicke
Allan R. Sandage
John C. Slater
John A. Wheeler
Saul Winstein
1973
Carl Djerassi
Maurice Ewing
Arie Jan Haagen-Smit
Vladimir Haensel
Frederick Seitz
Robert Rathbun Wilson
1974
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Paul Flory
William Alfred Fowler
Linus Carl Pauling
Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer
1975
Hans A. Bethe
Joseph O. Hirschfelder
Lewis Sarett
Edgar Bright Wilson
Chien-Shiung Wu
1976
Samuel Goudsmit
Herbert S. Gutowsky
Frederick Rossini
Verner Suomi
Henry Taube
George Uhlenbeck
1979
Richard P. Feynman
Herman Mark
Edward M. Purcell
John Sinfelt
Lyman Spitzer
Victor F. Weisskopf

1980s|

1982
Philip W. Anderson
Yoichiro Nambu
Edward Teller
Charles H. Townes
1983
E. Margaret Burbidge
Maurice Goldhaber
Helmut Landsberg
Walter Munk
Frederick Reines
Bruno B. Rossi
J. Robert Schrieffer
1986
Solomon J. Buchsbaum
H. Richard Crane
Herman Feshbach
Robert Hofstadter
Chen-Ning Yang
1987
Philip Abelson
Walter Elsasser
Paul C. Lauterbur
George Pake
James A. Van Allen
1988
D. Allan Bromley
Paul Ching-Wu Chu
Walter Kohn
Norman F. Ramsey
Jack Steinberger
1989
Arnold O. Beckman
Eugene Parker
Robert Sharp
Henry Stommel

1990s|

1990
Allan M. Cormack
Edwin M. McMillan
Robert Pound
Roger Revelle
1991
Arthur L. Schawlow
Ed Stone
Steven Weinberg
1992
Eugene M. Shoemaker
1993
Val Fitch
Vera Rubin
1994
Albert Overhauser
Frank Press
1995
Hans Dehmelt
Peter Goldreich
1996
Wallace S. Broecker
1997
Marshall Rosenbluth
Martin Schwarzschild
George Wetherill
1998
Don L. Anderson
John N. Bahcall
1999
James Cronin
Leo Kadanoff

2000s|

2000
Willis E. Lamb
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Gilbert F. White
2001
Marvin L. Cohen
Raymond Davis Jr.
Charles Keeling
2002
Richard Garwin
W. Jason Morgan
Edward Witten
2003
G. Brent Dalrymple
Riccardo Giacconi
2004
Robert N. Clayton
2005
Ralph A. Alpher
Lonnie Thompson
2006
Daniel Kleppner
2007
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
Charles P. Slichter
2008
Berni Alder
James E. Gunn
2009
Yakir Aharonov
Esther M. Conwell
Warren M. Washington

2010s|

2011
Sidney Drell
Sandra Faber
Sylvester James Gates
2012
Burton Richter
Sean C. Solomon
2014
Shirley Ann Jackson

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