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{{Short description|American biologist and Nobel Laureate (born 1938)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = David Baltimore
| image               = David Baltimore Caltech by c michel in 2021.jpg
| image_size          = 220
| caption             = Baltimore in 2021
| title               = President of the [[California Institute of Technology]]
| order               = 6th
| term_start          = 1997
| term_end            = 2005
| predecessor         = [[Thomas Eugene Everhart]]
| successor           = [[Jean-Lou Chameau]]
| title2              = President of [[Rockefeller University]]
| order2              = 6th
| term_start2         = 1990
| term_end2           = 1991
| predecessor2        = [[Joshua Lederberg]]
| successor2          = [[Torsten Wiesel]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1938|3|7}}
| birth_place         = [[New York City|New York, New York]], U.S.
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Alice S. Huang]]|1968}}
| children            = 1
| website             = {{URL|http://www.bbe.caltech.edu/content/david-baltimore}}
| module              = {{Infobox scientist | embed = yes
  | field             = [[Cell biology]], [[microbiology]]
  | workplaces        = {{Plainlist|
* [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
* [[Rockefeller University]]
* [[California Institute of Technology]]}}
  | thesis_title      = The diversion of macromolecular synthesis in L-cells towards ends dictated by mengovirus
  | thesis_url        = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302176930/
  | thesis_year       = 1964
  | doctoral_advisor  = Richard Franklin
  | doctoral_students = [[Sara Cherry]]
  | known_for         = {{Plainlist|
* [[Reverse transcriptase]]
* [[Baltimore classification]]}}
  | prizes            = {{Plainlist|
<!--* [[EMBO Member]] (1983)<ref name=membo/>-->
* [[NAS Award in Molecular Biology]] (1974)
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1975)
* [[Sir Hans Krebs Medal]] (1997)
* [[National Medal of Science]] (1999)}}
[[Lasker Award]] (2021)}}
| education           = {{Plainlist| * [[Swarthmore College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Rockefeller University]] ([[PhD]])}}
}}

{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage= | video1 = [https://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=172 Nobel Prize Interview with Dr. David Baltimore, 26 April 2001], Nobel Prize.org | video2= [http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/microbiology/david-baltimore-part-1.html David Baltimore: Danger from the Wild: HIV, Can We Conquer It?], iBiology}}

'''David Baltimore''' (born March 7, 1938) is an American [[biologist]], [[university administrator]], and 1975 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine]]. He is a professor of biology at the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|title=David Baltimore {{!}} Division of Biology and Biological Engineering|url=https://www.bbe.caltech.edu/people/david-baltimore|access-date=2021-02-28|website=www.bbe.caltech.edu}}</ref> 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]].

At age 37, Baltimore won the Nobel Prize with [[Renato Dulbecco]] and [[Howard Martin Temin|Howard M. Temin]] "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between [[Oncovirus|tumour viruses]] and the genetic material of the cell", specifically the discovery of the enzyme [[reverse transcriptase]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Baltimore, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1975/baltimore/biographical/ |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}</ref> He has contributed to [[immunology]], [[virology]], [[cancer research]], [[biotechnology]], and [[recombinant DNA]] research. He has also trained many doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, several of whom have gone on to notable and distinguished research careers. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received a number of awards, including the [[National Medal of Science|U.S. National Medal of Science]] in 1999 and the [[Lasker Award]] in 2021.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fundamental discoveries, academic leadership, and public advocacy|url=https://laskerfoundation.org/winners/fundamental-discoveries-academic-leadership-public-advocacy/|website=Lasker Award}}</ref>