David Baltimore dead: Former Caltech president, Nobel winner was 87 | NYGazet

Baltimore played a role in virtually every important national debate over the use and potential misuse of the science of genetic engineering.

In 2003, the Nobel Prize winner David Baltimore, then president of Caltech, paused to reflect on his role as one of the world’s most decorated scientists. “People keep e-mailing me to ask, ‘What is the meaning of life?’” Baltimore told an interviewer... [13672 chars]