David Baltimore

David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1938-03-07 in New York, NY, USA

Gender: male

Field: American biologist (born 1938)

Biography

David Baltimore 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. He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990. In 2008, he served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975

Awarded on: 1975-10-16

"for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"

Affiliations:

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Cambridge, MA, USA
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