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David Baltimore

David Baltimore

1938 - 2025

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David Baltimore, a pathbreaking molecular biologist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for discovering reverse transcriptase and later led Caltech, died September 6, 2025, at his home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He died of complications from several cancers at the age of 87. Born March 7, 1938, in...

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