Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science. Shane Crotty

Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science



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Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Page: 282
ISBN: 0520225570, 9780520225572

From Publishers Weekly

Nobel Prize winner Baltimore has had a remarkable influence on 20th-century biology. As one colleague has stated, "It is not an exaggeration to say that one could write a pretty decent history of the last 25 years in biology by reviewing Dr. Baltimore's contributions." Indeed, Baltimore has made significant discoveries in molecular biology, been actively involved in cancer and AIDS research, was the founding director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, was president of Rockefeller University, is currently president of the California Institute of Technology and was at the center of the nation's most protracted and public examination of scientific fraud. Crotty, a doctoral fellow at UC-San Francisco, does an impressive job of outlining Baltimore's scientific role in many of his major discoveries and makes many of the basics of modern molecular biology accessible to the general public. What is missing, however, is any deep sense of Baltimore. We see many of his actions and his experiments but we never fully come to know the individual. His personal life is almost entirely undisclosed, as are the reasons why a significant portion of the scientific establishment turned on him amid the accusations of fraud, of which he was ultimately cleared. Nonetheless, readers wanting to gain insight into the politics of contemporary science and those with a particular interest in microbiology, cancer and AIDS research will not be disappointed. Photos not seen by PW.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

When hearing David Baltimore's name, many people will think only of the ten-year scientific fraud scandal involving him and Thereza Imanishi-Kari. Yet Baltimore has been an important figure in modern molecular biology and virology, from his early work on RNA replicase and animal virus replication and his role in the controversy surrounding early recombinant DNA experientments, to his continuing work at Caltech as its president and as head of the AIDS Vaccine Research Committee. Crotty, Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, has written an intriguing biography of the controversial Nobel Prize-winning scientist. She narrates Baltimore's life in the context of the exciting discoveries that have changed biology since the 1950s and the fascinating people who made those discoveries and influenced Baltimore's career. Crotty also takes the time to explain clearly the science and scientific methods used in molecular biology and virology research. She covers the fraud case well, but David Kevles's The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Poltics, Science, and Character (LJ 10/1/98) offers a more extended study of that event. For public and academic libraries. Margaret Henderson, Cold Spring Harbor Academics, NY Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.



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