1938 - Today
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He is currently President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006. He also served as the director of the Joint Center for Translational Medicine, which joined Caltech and UCLA in a program to translate basic scientific discoveries into clinical realities. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Baltimore has received more than 430,328 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. David Baltimore is the 163rd most popular biologist (up from 235th in 2019), the 1,663rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,163rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Biologist.
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Among biologists, David Baltimore ranks 163 out of 844. Before him are Erik Pontoppidan, Philibert Commerson, Charles Bell, Albert von Kölliker, George Robert Gray, and Erwin Neher. After him are Martin Evans, Adolf Engler, Charles Scott Sherrington, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Joseph Banks, and Henry Walter Bates.
1698 - 1764
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 157
1727 - 1773
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 158
1774 - 1842
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 159
1817 - 1905
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 160
1808 - 1872
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 161
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 162
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 163
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 164
1844 - 1930
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 165
1952 - 1952
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 166
1723 - 1806
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 167
1743 - 1820
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 168
1825 - 1892
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 169
Among people born in 1938, David Baltimore ranks 89. Before him are Fela Kuti, Leiji Matsumoto, Ricardo Lagos, Klaus Schwab, Juliet Anderson, and Radivoj Korać. After him are Carlos Bilardo, McCoy Tyner, Connie Francis, Marcello Gandini, Robert Smithson, and Phil Knight.
1938 - 1997
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 83
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 84
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 85
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 86
1938 - 2010
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 87
1938 - 1969
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 88
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 89
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 90
1938 - 2020
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 91
1938 - Present
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 92
1938 - Present
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 93
1938 - 1973
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 94
1938 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 95
Among people born in United States, David Baltimore ranks 1,663 out of 15,968. Before him are Larry King (1933), Fredric March (1897), Thomas Mitchell (1892), Kim Peek (1951), Neil Patrick Harris (1973), and Gus Grissom (1926). After him are Gabe Newell (1962), William Nordhaus (1941), Dwight Schultz (1947), Michael Rooker (1955), Richard S. Castellano (1933), and Henry Steel Olcott (1832).
1933 - Present
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 1,657
1897 - 1975
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 1,658
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 1,659
1951 - 2009
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 1,660
1973 - Present
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 1,661
1926 - 1967
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 1,662
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 1,663
1962 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 1,664
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 1,665
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 1,666
1955 - Present
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 1,667
1933 - 1988
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 1,668
1832 - 1907
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 1,669
Among biologists born in United States, David Baltimore ranks 25. Before him are Sylvia Earle (1935), Norman Borlaug (1914), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), George Wald (1906), Temple Grandin (1947), and George Davis Snell (1903). After him are Joshua Lederberg (1925), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Nettie Stevens (1861), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Edward B. Lewis (1918), and Daniel Nathans (1928).
1935 - Present
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 19
1914 - 2009
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 20
1931 - Present
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 21
1906 - 1997
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 22
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 23
1903 - 1996
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 24
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 25
1925 - 2008
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 26
1915 - 2008
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 27
1861 - 1912
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 28
1922 - 1995
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 29
1918 - 2004
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 30
1928 - 1999
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 31