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.
^Vishniac, Ethan T.; Jin, Liping; Diamond, P. H. (1991). "Dynamos and angular momentum transport in accretion disks". Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics. 3 (8): 2374–2378. Bibcode:1991PhFlB...3.2374V. doi:10.1063/1.859606. ISSN0899-8221.
^Diamond, Patrick Henry (1979). "Theory of Phase Space Density Granulation in Magnetoplasma". PHDT. Bibcode:1979PhDT........63D.