NOBEL LAUREATE BALTIMORE TO RESUME RESEARCH AT MIT
Author: Associated Press
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 1992
Page: 29
Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN
CAMBRIDGE -- David Baltimore, the Nobel laureate who drew scrutiny in a
scientific fraud investigation, plans to resume research work at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school announced yesterday.
Baltimore resigned as president of Rockefeller University last year
because of the fraud controversy. He has remained a faculty member at
Rockefeller but plans to relinquish that position in 1994 to return to MIT.
"David Baltimore is one of the great molecular biologists of modern times,"
Robert J. Birgneau, MIT's dean of science, said in a statement. "We are
delighted to welcome him back."
Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in 1975 for research on viruses.
He was also on the MIT faculty when he was the co-author of a 1986 paper
on genetics that was later discredited by federal investigators. Authorities
alleged a fellow researcher falsified data, and Baltimore was criticized for
staunchly defending the work.
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