America's Best Leaders: David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology

US NEWS made a mistake. A big one. Baltimore should be evaluated as one of the worst leaders in the scientific community. He is as bad as Carly Fiorina whom was invited by Baltimore himself as a commencement speaker.

The Jackson Laboratory salutes David Baltimore

Dr. Baltimore's stellar scientific achievements speak for themselves. The Jackson Laboratory awarded him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in September, and now he's a valued member of our Board of Trustees. A short video highlighting his brilliant career is online at http://www.jax.org/support/gala.html.

Baltimore is an Awful Leader

Dr. Baltimore may be a Nobel scientist, but in the scientific community, he is known to be a terrible leader.

At MIT, he engendered much bad publicity and ill will with a NIH panel because of his ham-handed handling of a fraud investigation into one of his junior faculty.

At Caltech, he so alienated the student body that they were telling prospective students not to apply to Caltech.

Great Scientist, Terrible Leader

You have got to be kidding. David Baltimore was a phenomenal scientist, but a terrible leader. At every institution he led, he left behind a legacy of controversy and ill will. At Cal Tech, he was so disliked by the students that they were telling prospective students not to enroll there because of him. The board finally had to fire him.