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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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David Baltimore shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and Howard Temin for their discoveries on tumor viruses and reverse transcriptase. Learn more about his work, affiliation, prize motivation and citation on NobelPrize.org.
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.
Dr. Baltimore talks about how he became interested in science; his first decade as a scientist (4:40); the discovery of reverse transcriptase 16:58); the impact of the discovery (28:57); the Nobel Prize (35:02); recombinant DNA technology (38:34); how his research evolved (46:22); and the Human Genome Project (49:49).
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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."
Aug 30, 2021 · Dr. Baltimore is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Baltimore received his undergraduate degree at Swarthmore and rapidly completed his PhD at The Rockefeller University.
