David Baltimore
American biologist
Died when: 87 years 183 days (1049 months)Star Sign: Pisces
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) was an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.He is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006.
He also served as the director of the Joint Center for Translational Medicine, which joined Caltech and UCLA in a program to translate basic scientific discoveries into clinical realities.
He also formerly served as president of Rockefeller University from 1990 to 1991, founder and director of the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research from 1982 to 1990, and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.
Baltimore has profoundly influenced international science, including key contributions to immunology, virology, cancer research, biotechnology, and recombinant DNA research, through his accomplishments as a researcher, administrator, educator, and public advocate for science and engineering.
He has trained many doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, several of whom have gone on to notable and distinguished research careers.
In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received a number of awards, including the U.S.National Medal of Science in 1999 and the Lasker Award in 2021.
Baltimore sits on the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and as a senior scientific advisor to the Science Philanthropy Alliance.
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