SPEAKER: David Baltimore California Institute of Technology President and Nobel Laureate Nobel Laureate
ABOUT THE LECTURE: In this lecture, Dr. Baltimore discuses the central importance of trust, in science, education, commerce and personal life. According to Dr. Baltimore, "trust is a moral stance without which a community cannot exist because, as the Enron debacle shows, no network of safeguards can replace moral behavior." In his remarks Dr. Baltimore emphasizes the role of trust in the collaborative activities that are needed for interdisciplinary science and in the educational community that is Caltech.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Prior to becoming Caltech's seventh President in 1997, Dr. Baltimore was an Institute Professor at MIT and founding director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He received the Nobel Prize in 1975 for his work in virology.
