1938 - Today
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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Among biologists, David Baltimore ranks 210 out of 841. Before 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.
1901 - 1997
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 204
1926 - 1994
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 205
1817 - 1905
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 206
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 207
1876 - 1928
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 208
1750 - 1837
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 209
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 210
1806 - 1886
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 211
1916 - 2010
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 212
1946 - 1995
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 213
1913 - 1976
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 214
1605 - 1682
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 215
1517 - 1564
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 216
Among people born in 1938, David Baltimore ranks 119. Before 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.
1938 - 2018
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 113
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 114
1938 - 1969
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 115
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 116
1938 - 1973
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 117
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 118
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 119
1938 - 2020
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 120
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 121
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 122
1938 - 2020
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 123
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 124
1938 - 1977
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 125
Among people born in United States, David Baltimore ranks 2,201 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1902 - 1967
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 2,195
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 2,196
1902 - 1979
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 2,197
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 2,198
1912 - 1997
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 2,199
1941 - 1966
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 2,200
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 2,201
1911 - 1976
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 2,202
1863 - 1941
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 2,203
1929 - 2022
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 2,204
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 2,205
1649 - 1695
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 2,206
1914 - 1974
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 2,207
Among biologists born in United States, David Baltimore ranks 43. Before 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).
1941 - Present
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 37
1934 - 1994
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 38
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 39
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 40
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 41
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 42
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 43
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 44
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 45
1957 - Present
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 46
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 47
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 48
1813 - 1895
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 49