Diamond was raised in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, NY. He graduated St. Anselm’s Elementary School and Xavierian High School, both located in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, NY
Diamond received his
Ph.D. in 1979 from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6]
In 2011, Diamond was awarded the
Hannes Alfvén Prize by the
European Physical Society for "laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated
zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern
turbulence in plasmas".[3]
Gang, F. Y.; Diamond, P. H.; Crotinger, J. A.; Koniges, A. E. (1991). "Statistical dynamics of dissipative drift wave turbulence". Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics. 3 (4): 955–968.
Bibcode:
1991PhFlB...3..955G.
doi:
10.1063/1.859851.
ISSN0899-8221.
Carreras, B. A.; Sidikman, K.; Diamond, P. H.; Terry, P. W.; Garcia, L. (1992). "Theory of shear flow effects on long-wavelength drift wave turbulence". Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics. 4 (10): 3115–3131.
Bibcode:
1992PhFlB...4.3115C.
doi:
10.1063/1.860420.
ISSN0899-8221.
Diamond, Patrick H. (2010). Relaxation dynamics in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. World Scientific.
OCLC748930038.
Diamond, Patrick H. (2007). The legacy of Marshall Rosenbluth : history of plasma physics. Stefan University Press.
ISBN978-1-889545-72-1.
OCLC159919457.