Subject: Baltimore Resigns as Head Of Rockfeller University 
Date: Published: 12/3/91 (43 lines)
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    Baltimore Resigns as Head
    Of Rockfeller University
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    Special to The Wall Street Journal

    NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the nation's most distinguished
 scientists announced his resignation yesterday as president
 of Rockefeller University.  He blamed a "climate of
 unhappiness" surrounding an allegation of fraud in a
 scientific paper of which he was co-author.
    In a letter to David Rockefeller and Richard Furlaud of
 the university's board of trustees, David Baltimore said,
 "When I accepted the position of president of this
 institution, I did not anticipate that this matter would
 become such an extended personal travail for everyone
 involved."
    Dr. Baltimore, who took over as president of the
 university two years ago, said he would resign effective Dec. 
 31.  He will remain as a professor, resuming AIDS research
 that was dropped when he accepted the presidency.
    The board of trustees is expected to accept Dr. 
 Baltimore's resignation at a meeting Tuesday.
    Dr. Baltimore won a Nobel Prize in 1975 for research on
 the basic biology of viruses.  For more than five years, he
 has been the focus of one of the most rancorous and widely
 publicized investigations of scientific fraud.
    Although Dr. Baltimore himself has never been accused of
 fraud, he was sharply criticized for a dismissive attitude
 toward the investigation and for a stonewalling defense that
 he eventually was forced to abandon.
    Earlier this year, an inquiry by the National Institutes
 of Health concluded that the scientific paper Dr. Baltimore
 was defending did indeed include errors.
    In May, Dr. Baltimore apologized to the researcher who
 made the allegations of scientific fraud.

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