He graduated from Great Neck North High School in 1956, and credits his interest in biology to a high-school summer spent at the Jackson Laboratory's Summer Student Program in Bar Harbor, Maine. His father had been raised as an Orthodox Jew and his mother was an atheist, and Baltimore observed Jewish holidays and would attend synagogue with his father through his Bar Mitzvah. Raised in the Queens neighborhoods of Forest Hills and Rego Park, he moved with his family to suburban Great Neck, New York, while he was in second grade because his mother felt that the city schools were inadequate. īaltimore was born on March 7, 1938, in New York City to Gertrude (Lipschitz) and Richard Baltimore. Baltimore sits on the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and as a senior scientific advisor to the Science Philanthropy Alliance.
In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received a number of awards, including the U.S. He has trained many doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, several of whom have gone on to notable and distinguished research careers. He also formerly served as president of Rockefeller University from 1990 to 1991, founder and Director of the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research from 1982 to 1990, and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.īaltimore has profoundly influenced international science, including key contributions to immunology, virology, cancer research, biotechnology, and recombinant DNA research, through his accomplishments as a researcher, administrator, educator, and public advocate for science and engineering.
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. 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. David Baltimore, 26 April 2001, Nobel ĭavid Baltimore: Danger from the Wild: HIV, Can We Conquer It?, iBiologyĭavid Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. It’s hard to compare Race Point Beach in Provincetown to some of the, uh, let’s just say lesser beaches on the Cape.The diversion of macromolecular synthesis in L-cells towards ends dictated by mengovirus (1964) Perhaps the most baffling rating in the Best Beaches category was the decision to lump all of Cape Cod into one beach. Kennebunkport came in at 22 on the Best Beaches in the United States list, with Ogunquit at 26. It also showed up at number 20 in the Best US Beaches list. Nantucket ranked 8 in the category of Best Family Beach Vacations. New England beaches made multiple appearances, but were often upstaged by warmer ones that allow swimmers to stay in the water for longer than 10 minutes before fingers and toes turn blue.
“Young and old baseball fans will either love (or begrudgingly appreciate) a visit to iconic Fenway Park.” “Supplementing its storied locations is a bevy of museums, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Children’s Museum,” the publication wrote. “Bar Harbor is basically a postcard that has found its way into the real world,” the survey reads.īoston came in at number 19 on the Best Places to Visit in the United States list, along with number 10 in Best Family Summer Vacations, 13 in Best Family Vacations, and 14 in Best Cheap Summer Vacations.
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