The Smartest Kid in Class

David Baltimore was thirty-seven years old when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He was at the time the youngest Nobel laureate in history, but his prodigious talent had also attracted attention at an early age. His autobiography credits a summer internship—at the celebrated Jackson Labo...

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Published in:	Abelard to Apple p. 23
Main Author:	Richard A. DeMillo
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	The MIT Press 26-08-2011
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Summary:	David Baltimore was thirty-seven years old when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He was at the time the youngest Nobel laureate in history, but his prodigious talent had also attracted attention at an early age. His autobiography credits a summer internship—at the celebrated Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine—for his early passion for biology. He was still in high school that summer. In the middle of his undergraduate years at Swarthmore—a time when even the brightest science students are struggling with differential equations and molecular biology—Baltimore attracted the attention of George Streisinger, a
ISBN:	9780262518628 0262518627
DOI:	10.7551/mitpress/8792.003.0007