# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-baltimore
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:14:10.019Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-baltimore"
name: "David Baltimore"
slug: "david-baltimore"
description: "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. In 2008, he served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science."
tagline: "American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938–2025)"
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birthDate: "1938-03-07"
deathDate: "2025-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump