David Baltimore
David Baltimore (March 7, 1938 – September 6, 2025) was an American biologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 for discovering reverse transcriptase. He shared the prize with Howard Temin and Renato Dulbecco.[1] He was born in New York City.
The discovery of reverse transcriptase was made at the same time as Howard Temin. It overturned the central dogma of molecular biology because it showed that genetic information could traffic both ways between DNA and RNA. They published these findings in back-to-back papers in the journal, Nature.[2][3]
He was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 1999.[4]
Baltimore died on September 6, 2025 from problems caused by metastatic cancer at his home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts at the age of 87.[5]
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David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938)
From left: JPL director Charles Elachi, La Canada-Flintridge mayor Greg Brown, Baltimore and JPL deputy director Eugene Tattini (2006)
References
- ↑ David Baltimore - Autobiography. nobelprize.org (2011). Retrieved 27 February 2011.
- ↑ Baltimore, David. Viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase: RNA-dependent DNA polymerasse in visions of RNA tumor viruses. Nature 226 (5252) (1970). p. 1209–1211. doi:10.1038/2261209a0.
- ↑ Temin, Howard. Viral RNA-dependent DNA Polymerasse: RNA-dependent DNA Polymerase in Virions of Rous Sarcoma Virus. Nature 226 (5252) (1970). p. 1211–1213. doi:10.1038/2261211a0.
- ↑ David BaltimoreAcademia Europaea.
- ↑ Kolata, Gina (2025-09-07) (in en-US). David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/science/david-baltimore-dead.html. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
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