US EditionNobel Laureate David Baltimore Dead at 87
David Baltimore's discovery of reverse transcriptase revolutionized molecular biology and advanced AIDS research; he was exonerated after a decade-long scientific fraud investigation.
- Former Caltech president David Baltimore died Saturday at his Woods Hole, Massachusetts home, aged 87, with his wife, Alice Huang, citing complications of several cancers as the cause.
- At 37, David Baltimore overturned molecular biology's central dogma by showing RNA can transfer information back to DNA via the viral enzyme transcriptase, earning the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- After early research posts, Baltimore joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty in 1968, held positions at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, and Rockefeller University, and served nearly nine years as California Institute of Technology president.
- His family includes wife Alice Huang, daughter TK Baltimore, and a granddaughter; Huang was among the first to learn of his Nobel Prize win.
- Baltimore also led AIDS research and chaired national policy efforts, enduring a decade-long fraud controversy before being vindicated and named Caltech president.
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Considered a major figure in molecular biology, the American biologist died at the age of 87.
David Baltimore, an American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine in 1975, died at the age of 87, leaving behind a scientific legacy marked by an unjust accusation of fraud
The American biologist, whose career was upset in 1986 by allegations of unfounded scientific fraud, had to wait ten years to be cleared.
Los Angeles Times
DNyuzDavid Baltimore, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and former Caltech president, dies at 87
Baltimore played a role in virtually every important national debate over the use and potential misuse of the science of genetic engineering.
Daily Breeze
David Baltimore, former Caltech president and Nobel winner, dead at 87
Former Caltech president and Nobel laureate David Baltimore died at his home in Massachusetts on Saturday, Sept. 6, Caltech confirmed on Sunday. He was 87. Details of his death were not immediately available Sunday morning. Baltimore was the seventh president of the California Institute in Technology in Pasadena, serving in the post for nearly nine years, from 1997-2006. As a professor of biology, he was known for his work in physiology and DNA …
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