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David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He is a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006. [2]
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American virologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 with Howard M. Temin and Renato Dulbecco. Working independently, Baltimore and Temin discovered reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that synthesizes DNA from RNA.
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1973-present. American Cancer Society Professor of Microbiology. From Les Prix Nobel en 1975, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1976. This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/ Nobel Lectures / The Nobel Prizes.
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David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), was awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly with Renato Dulbecco and Howard Temin for "their discoveries concerning the interaction of tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell." Baltimore and Temin independently discovered reverse transcriptase, the enz...
Gustav Stern Award in Virology, 1970Eli Lilly and Company Award in Microbiology and Immunology, 1971Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1974Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974California Institute of Technology faculty pageNobel Prize biographyAug 30, 2021 · Baltimore received his undergraduate degree at Swarthmore and rapidly completed his PhD at The Rockefeller University. After postdoctoral work in New York at The Rockefeller University and Albert Einstein, and a faculty position at the Salk Institute, he returned to MIT where he spent nearly 30 years and was founding director of the Whitehead Institute.
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- Pathog Immun. 2021; 6(2): 50-59.
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see David Baltimore . David Baltimore, (born March 7, 1938, New York, N.Y., U.S.), U.S. virologist. He received his doctorate from the Rockefeller Institute. He and Howard Temin (1934–94), working independently, discovered an enzyme that synthesizes DNA from RNA, the reverse of the usual ...
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Learn about David Baltimore, a renowned virologist, educator, and administrator who won the Nobel Prize at 37 and founded several biotech companies. He is also a member of the Broad Institute and the American Association for Cancer Research.
