# David Baltimore (@david-baltimore)

David Baltimore was a American virologist and scientific leader. Baltimore and Howard Temin independently discovered reverse transcriptase in 1970, showing how RNA tumor viruses can produce DNA copies.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from David Baltimore's public record._

## Topics

- [Leadership and Debate](/@david-baltimore/leadership-and-debate.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Reverse Transcriptase](/@david-baltimore/reverse-transcriptase.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Virus Classification](/@david-baltimore/virus-classification.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1975/baltimore/facts/
- blog: https://www.rockefeller.edu/our-scientists/david-baltimore/2422-nobel-prize/
- blog: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/david-baltimore-1938-2025

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "david-baltimore", "question": "…"}`.