Molecular biologist David Baltimore was only 37 when he won the 1975
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning the
interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the
cell." He shared the award with Dr. Renato Dulbecco and Dr. Howard M.
Temin. He was appointed associate professor of microbiology at MIT in
1968.
My life is dedicated to increasing knowledge. We need no more
justification for scientific research than that. My motivating force is
not that I will find a 'cure' for cancer. There may never be a cure as
such. I work because I want to understand. [Time magazine, 6 August
1979]
