David Baltimore
David Baltimore was an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He was 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.
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- Born in
- Manhattan
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Rockefeller UniversitySwarthmore CollegeJohn L. Miller Great Neck North High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Gary Ruvkun📖 Victor Ambros
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1938
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