Editing David Baltimore (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File: David Baltimore NIH.jpg|thumb|right|Baltimore in the 1970s]]
Baltimore was born on March 7, 1938, in [[New York City]] to Gertrude (Lipschitz) and Richard Baltimore.  Raised in the [[Queens]] neighborhoods of [[Forest Hills, Queens|Forest Hills]] and [[Rego Park, Queens|Rego Park]], he moved with his family to suburban [[Great Neck, New York]], while he was in second grade because his mother felt that the city schools were inadequate. His father had been raised as an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jew]] and his mother was an [[atheist]], and Baltimore observed Jewish holidays and would attend synagogue with his father through his [[Bar Mitzvah]].<ref name="Lippincott">{{cite web | url = http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/168/1/Baltimore,D._OHO.pdf | title = David Baltimore – Interviewed | vauthors = Lippincott S | date = October–November 2009 | publisher = [[California Institute of Technology]] | access-date = February 21, 2013 | quote = But she was also committed to her family and to my father's right to have his religion, and we celebrated the major holidays, we fasted on Yom Kippur, and I walked with my father to the shul, which was a long walk from where we lived. }}</ref> He graduated from [[John L. Miller Great Neck North High School|Great Neck North High School]] in 1956, and credits his interest in biology to a high-school summer spent at the [[Jackson Laboratory]]'s Summer Student Program in [[Bar Harbor, Maine]].<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1975/baltimore/lecture/ | title = Nobel Prize autobiography | work = Nobelprize.org | date = 12 December 1975 | access-date = 2012-02-17 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Kerr K | url = http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-century_of_science_dissons,0,7662594.story | title = They Began Here | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080609022451/http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-century_of_science_dissons,0,7662594.story | archive-date=June 9, 2008 | work = [[Newsday]] | access-date = October 23, 2007 | quote = David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel laureate and one of the nation's best-known scientists, is a good case in point. The 60-year-old Baltimore, who graduated from Great Neck High School in 1956...}}</ref> It was at this program that he met [[Howard Martin Temin|Howard Temin]], with whom he would later share the Nobel Prize.<ref name=":0">MIT. "David Baltimore." ''YouTube,'' uploaded by Infinite History Project MIT, 8 Mar. 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EmiKT1IgY</ref>

Baltimore earned his [[Bachelor of Arts|bachelor's degree]] with high honors at [[Swarthmore College]] in 1960.<ref name=NobelBio>{{cite web|title=David Baltimore – Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1975/baltimore-bio.html|website=Nobel Prize.org|access-date=May 23, 2015}}</ref> He was introduced to [[molecular biology]] by [[George Streisinger]], under whose mentorship he worked for a summer at [[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]] as part of the inaugural cohort of the Undergraduate Research Program in 1959.<ref name=NobelBio/><ref name="Lippincott" /><ref name=":0" /> There he also met two new MIT faculty, future Nobel Laureate [[Salvador Luria]] and [[Cyrus Levinthal]], who were scouting for candidates for a new program of graduate education in molecular biology.<ref name="Lippincott" /><ref name=":0" /> 

Luria and Levinthal invited Baltimore to apply to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT).<ref name="Lippincott" /><ref name=":0" /> Baltimore's future promise was evident in his work as a graduate student when he entered MIT's graduate program in biology in 1960 with a brash and brilliant approach to learning science, completing his PhD thesis work in two years.<ref name="Crotty">{{cite book| vauthors = Crotty S |date=2003|title=Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=9780520239043}}</ref><ref name="thesis-baltimore-1964">{{cite thesis|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/302176930/|title=The diversion of macromolecular synthesis in L-cells towards ends dictated by mengovirus.|date=1964|publisher=[[The Rockefeller University]]|type=Ph.D.| vauthors = Baltimore D |id={{ProQuest|302176930 }}|url-access=subscription|oclc=38131761}}</ref> His early interest in phage genetics quickly yielded to a passion for animal viruses.<ref name="Lippincott" /> He took the Cold Spring Harbor course on animal virology in 1961 and he moved to Richard Franklin's (got his doctoral degree from Rockefeller Institute) lab at the Rockefeller Institute at New York City, which was one of the few labs pioneering molecular research on animal virology.<ref name="Lippincott" /> There he made fundamental discoveries on virus replication and its effect on cell metabolism, including the first description of an RNA replicase.