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Biography of David Baltimore
Name: David Baltimore
Birth Date: March 7, 1938
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: virologist
David Baltimore
The American virologist David Baltimore (born 1938) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on retrovirus biochemistry and its significance for cancer research.David Baltimore was born on March 7, 1938, in New York City, the son of Richard I. and Gertrude (Lipschitz) Baltimore. While still a high school student, he spent a summer at the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, experiencing biology under actual research conditions. This so affected him that upon entering Swarthmore College in 1956 he declared himself a biology major. Later he switched to chemistry to complete a research thesis and graduated in 1960 with a B.A. and high honors. Between his sophomore and junior years at Swarthmore, he spent a summer at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, where the influence of George Streisinger led him to molecular biology.Baltimore spent two years of graduate work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in biophysics, …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…immunology, and virology. The award is the United States' highest for science and technology. Further Reading Short biographies of David Baltimore can be found in the 39th edition of Who's Who in America (1976-1977) and in the 14th edition of American Men and Women of Science: Physical and Biological Sciences (1979). He provided an autobiographical sketch in the Nobel Lectures (1977), and a New York Times interview (August 26, 1980) gives additional information.For further reading, see: Appeals Panel Reverses Fraud Finding by K. Fackelmann in Science News , July 6, 1996; Baltimore to Head New Vaccine Panel by Jon Cohen in Science, December 20, 1996; and A Shot In the Arm by Mark Schoofs, The Village Voice, December 24, 1996.There are many excellent sources of information on Baltimore on the World Wide Web, including his site at Caltech (http://www.caltech.edu/president/index.html) and his autobiography at the Nobel e-Museum (http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1975/baltimore-autobio.html).
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