Interview with David Baltimore - Caltech Oral Histories
Interview with David Baltimore - Caltech Oral Histories
Interview with David Baltimore - Caltech Oral Histories
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<strong>Baltimore</strong>-93<br />
BALTIMORE: It’s more to bring them together into one place. That’s, if anything, the most<br />
important thing about it—and for meeting space and other things; there’s very little experimental<br />
space. There’s some space for building equipment and things.<br />
LIPPINCOTT: But they all go to the Keck [Telescopes] if they need equipment, is that not right<br />
BALTIMORE: You mean actual telescopes—the telescopes are elsewhere.<br />
LIPPINCOTT: I was just wondering why they needed a whole lot of space, but you say it was just<br />
to bring them together.<br />
BALTIMORE: Yes; it wasn’t actually going to be a net gain of space; it was to bring them<br />
together.<br />
LIPPINCOTT: Were they doing more hiring in astrophysics then<br />
BALTIMORE: Not a lot. It wasn’t a big expansion, but they had, over the years, hired people and<br />
they’d put them here and they’d put them there and they’d put them all over—strew them around<br />
other physicists.<br />
LIPPINCOTT: That’s a very strange-looking building, too.<br />
BALTIMORE: So, again, I committed us. And this time I did it—and actually <strong>with</strong> Mr. Cahill not<br />
being particularly happy about it—to get a first-rate architect. And again we had a competition<br />
and we looked at a variety of architects and chose Thom Mayne.<br />
LIPPINCOTT: You say Mr. Cahill wasn’t happy<br />
BALTIMORE: No. He found it all very strange.<br />
LIPPINCOTT: Who is Mr. Cahill I don’t know anything about him.
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