Quick Facts
- NAME:
David Baltimore
- OCCUPATION:
Scientist
- BIRTH DATE:
March 07, 1938
(Age: 75)
- EDUCATION:
Swarthmore College,
Rockefeller Institute,
MIT
- PLACE OF BIRTH:
New York,
New York
- ZODIAC SIGN:
Pisces
David Baltimore proved an exception to the 'central dogma' of
genetic theory, which states that the information encoded in genes
always flows unidirectionally from DNA to RNA and cannot be reversed.
Since its discovery, reverse transcriptase has become an invaluable tool
in recombinant DNA technology. For his work, Bailey shared the Nobel
Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975.
