David Baltimore Biography

David Baltimore biography

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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

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David Baltimore is an American virologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975.

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David Baltimore. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 10:00, Jun 19, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/david-baltimore-9197312.

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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.

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