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Jared Diamond

1937 - Today

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Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and he has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books. His best known is Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jared Diamond has received more than 2,330,691 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Jared Diamond is the 53rd most popular historian (down from 46th in 2019), the 713th most popular biography from United States (down from 608th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Historian.

Jared Diamond is most famous for his book Guns, Germs, and Steel, which explores the question of why Eurasian civilizations became dominant.

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  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jared Diamond ranks 53 out of 561. Before him are Niketas Choniates, Aby Warburg, Henri Pirenne, Ernst Gombrich, Joseph Justus Scaliger, and Socrates of Constantinople. After him are Johann Gustav Droysen, Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Geoffrey of Villehardouin, Callisthenes, Tzvetan Todorov, and John Skylitzes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Jared Diamond ranks 35. Before him are Bruce McLaren, Abu Nidal, Colin Powell, Alain Badiou, Karel Schwarzenberg, and Bill Cosby. After him are Warren Beatty, Gennady Yanayev, Sajida Talfah, Avram Hershko, Philip Glass, and Juvénal Habyarimana.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jared Diamond ranks 713 out of 20,380. Before him are John McCarthy (1927), Nat King Cole (1919), Lee Marvin (1924), Kenny Rogers (1938), John Deere (1804), and Benjamin Thompson (1753). After him are Robert H. Goddard (1882), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), Montgomery Clift (1920), Edwin Booth (1833), Robert Nozick (1938), and Vincent du Vigneaud (1901).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Jared Diamond ranks 2. Before him are Thomas Kuhn (1922). After him are Donna Haraway (1944), Richard Sennett (1943), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Hayden White (1928), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Howard Zinn (1922), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Linda Nochlin (1931), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), and Deborah Lipstadt (1947).

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