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

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Mr.David Baltimore's is a best leader,he got Nobel prize for retroviruses.This is a good article about America's Best Leaders.Thank you for this blog.

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Mr.David Baltimore's is a best leader,he got Nobel prize for retroviruses.This is a good article about America's Best Leaders.Thank you for this blog.

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Mr.David Baltimore's is a best leader,he got Nobel prize for retroviruses.This is a good article about America's Best Leaders.Thank you for this blog.

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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.

of 1:17PM January 07, 2009

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.

The Jackson Laboratory of ME 1:54PM November 26, 2008

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.

Al Smith of CA 11:50AM November 24, 2008

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.

Anonymous of CA 11:31AM November 24, 2008

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