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BIOLOGIST

David Baltimore

1938 - Today

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David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 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. He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Baltimore has received more than 630,626 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). David Baltimore is the 210th most popular biologist (down from 163rd in 2019), the 2,201st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,662nd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 51

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  • 5.02

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  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Baltimore ranks 210 out of 841Before him are Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Jérôme Lejeune, Albert von Kölliker, Robert Gallo, Hideyo Noguchi, and Adam Afzelius. After him are Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Georges J. F. Köhler, Willi Hennig, Thomas Browne, and Pierre Belon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, David Baltimore ranks 119Before him are Lill-Babs, Willy Claes, Radivoj Korać, Heino, Robert Smithson, and Wu Yi. After him are Mamadou Tandja, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ivan Sutherland, Amfilohije Radović, Oleg Gordievsky, and Marien Ngouabi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Baltimore ranks 2,201 out of 18,182Before him are Langston Hughes (1902), Jerry Seinfeld (1954), Richard Rodgers (1902), Edward Witten (1951), Samuel Fuller (1912), and Charles Whitman (1941). After him are Lee J. Cobb (1911), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), George Crumb (1929), Henry Winkler (1945), Thomas Tew (1649), and Bill Finger (1914).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, David Baltimore ranks 43Before him are George Smith (1941), Howard Martin Temin (1934), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Charles M. Rice (1952), Henrietta Lacks (1920), and Robert Gallo (1937). After him are Michael Rosbash (1944), Michael W. Young (1949), Bruce Beutler (1957), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), Craig Venter (1946), and James Dwight Dana (1813).