[An interview with...] David Baltimore

Abstract

David Baltimore was born in 1938. He attended Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, as an undergraduate and obtained his Ph.D. from the Rockefeller Institute, New York, USA. He was a faculty member of the Salk Institute, California, and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for many years. While at MIT, Baltimore received (at the age of 37) the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Howard Temin, for the discovery of reverse transcriptase. He was founding director of the Whitehead Institute, an academic affiliate of MIT. He has served as President of Rockefeller University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He is currently President Emeritus and a professor at Caltech.

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