Bronx High School of Science

The Bronx High School of Science, commonly called Bronx Science, is a public high school in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, New York City. Founded in 1938 with a traditional focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science is one of a triumvirate of elite public schools in New York City, and is often hailed as one of the best high schools in the United States. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education.

Notable alumni

Bronx Science counts seven Nobel Prize winners among its graduates, more than any other secondary school in the world and also more than most countries in the world:

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• Leon N. Cooper '47, 1972, Brown University
• Melvin Schwartz '49, 1988, Columbia University
• Sheldon L. Glashow '50, 1979, Boston University
• Steven Weinberg '50, 1979, University of Texas at Austin
• Russell A. Hulse '66, 1993, Princeton University
• H. David Politzer '66, 2004, California Institute of Technology
• Roy J. Glauber '41, 2005, Harvard

Bronx Science also has five Pulitzer Prize-winning graduates:

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• William Sherman '63, 1974, Reporter at the New York Daily News
• William Safire '47, 1978, author and columnist at The New York Times
• Joseph Lelyveld '54, 1986, Executive Editor (1994-2001, 2003) at The New York Times
• Bernard L. Stein '59, 1998, Editor of the Riverdale Press
• William Taubman '58, 2004, Professor of Political Science at Amherst College

Other noted students include singer Bobby Darin, Hayden Planetarium's Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Freedom Tower architect Daniel Libeskind, authors Samuel Delany and E. L. Doctorow, CBS-2 reporter Pablo Guzman, actors Jon Favreau and Jon Cryer, Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael, Olympic water polo player Wolf Wigo, computer scientists Gregory Chaitin, Marvin Minsky and Leslie Lamport, Poet Judith Baumel, and former New York City Schools' Chancellor Harold O. Levy.

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Bobby Darin - Hayden Planetarium - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Daniel Libeskind - Samuel Delany - E. L. Doctorow - Pablo Guzman - Jon Favreau - Jon Cryer - Stokely Carmichael - Wolf Wigo - Gregory Chaitin - Marvin Minsky - Leslie Lamport - Judith Baumel - Harold O. Levy

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