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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. He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990.
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975 was awarded jointly to David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Martin Temin "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"
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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 biographyDr. 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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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.
