(1975) David Baltimore
David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Baltimore born March 7, 1938 in New York City. He earned a BA at Swarthmore College in 1960, and received his Ph.D. at Rockefeller University in 1964. After postdoctoral fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a non-faculty research position at the Salk Institute, he joined the MIT faculty in 1968. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974. In 1975, at the age of 37, he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Howard Temin and Renato Dulbecco. The citation reads, \"for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell\". In 1982, Baltimore was appointed the founding director of MIT\'s Whitehead Institute, where he remained through June 1990. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1997 to 2006. He also served as president of Rockefeller University from 1990 to 1991, and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.
