David Baltimore

American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938-2025) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 87

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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2025Died6 September 20252021Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical ScienceAward2005Honorary Doctor of Harvard UniversityAward2002AMA Scientific Achievement AwardAward2000Warren Alpert Foundation PrizeAward1999National Medal of ScienceAward1997Sir Hans Krebs MedalAward1987Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1975Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1974Canada Gairdner International AwardAwardNAS Award in Molecular BiologyAward1971Warren Triennial PrizeAward1938Born7 March 1938