Nobel Prize laureates by secondary school affiliation
The following is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by secondary school affiliation. To be listed, a high school must have at least one Nobel Prize laureate among its alumni.
(Note: this list is very incomplete, especially for the many high schools that have one alumnus or alumna who is a Nobel Prize winner.)
See also
References and notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 MacDonald, Kerri. "A Nobel Laureate Returns Home to Bronx Science", The New York Times, October 15, 2010. Accessed June 10, 2013. "David Politzer, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, visited his alma mater, the Bronx High School of Science, on Friday. The school has seven Nobel physics winners among its graduates.... Bronx Science’s other Nobel winners are Leon N. Cooper, class of 1947, Nobel in 1972; Sheldon L. Glashow and Steven Weinberg, both class of 1950, Nobel in 1979; Melvin Schwartz, class of 1949, Nobel in 1988; Roy G. Glauber, class of 1941, Nobel in 2005; and Russell A. Hulse, a classmate of Dr. Politzer’s who won in 1993 — 11 years before Dr. Politzer."
- ↑ Glashow, Sheldon. "Sheldon Glashow - The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 - Autobiography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
- ↑ "Melvin Schwartz - Autobiography". Nobel Foundation. 1988. Retrieved June 2, 2009.
- ↑ "Russell A. Hulse - Autobiography". Nobel Foundation. 1993. Retrieved June 2, 2009.
- ↑ "Roy J. Glauber - Autobiography". Nobel Foundation. 2005. Retrieved June 2, 2009.
- ↑ "2 American Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry". The New York Times. 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
- ↑ "Henri BECQUEREL - JeSuisMort.com". JeSuisMort.com. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
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- ↑ "Biographie de l'économiste Maurice Allais". www.andlil.com. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
- ↑ Gleick, James. "MAN IN THE NEWS; HOLDOUT ON BIG SCIENCE: STANLEY COHEN", The New York Times, October 14, 1986. Accessed June 11, 2013. "Stanley Cohen was born Nov. 17, 1922, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn.... He attended James Madison High School and Brooklyn College, eventually getting his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Michigan in 1948."
- ↑ Zahka, William J. The Nobel Prize Economics Lectures: A Cross Section of current Thinking, p. 47. Avebury, 1992. ISBN 1856280861. "At the suggestion of one of his teachers at James Madison High School, Solow began his studies at Harvard College in 1940 on a scholarship."
- ↑ Autobiography of Martin L. Perl, Nobel Prize. Accessed June 11, 2013. "I was sixteen when I graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn in 1942. My sister, who is now a well known writer in the United States, moved through school even faster - she graduated at fifteen and one-half."
- ↑ Fuchs, Victor R. "Nobel Laureate - Gary S. Becker: Ideas About Facts", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 8, number 2 - Spring 1994, pp. 183-192. Accessed June 11, 2013.
- ↑ "Joshua Lederberg - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 - Biography". 1958. Retrieved October 31, 2007.
- 1 2 3 4 Klein, Alec. A Class Apart, p. 26. Simon & Schuster, 2007. ISBN 1416545530. Accessed June 11, 2013. "Perhaps the truest measure of Stuyvesant's greatness is what its students do after they leave school. Four alumni have gone on to win the Nobel prize: Joshua lederber, in 1958 for physiology or medicine... Roald Hoffmann, in 1981 for chemistry... Robert W. Fogel, in 1993 for economics... and Richard Axel, in 2004 for physiology or medicine...."
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- ↑ Gibson, Lydialyle (May–June 2007). "The human equation". The University of Chicago Magazine (University of Chicago) 99 (5). Retrieved October 31, 2007.
- ↑ Eisner, Robin (Winter 2005). "Richard Axel: One of the Nobility in Science". P&S (Columbia University). Retrieved October 31, 2007.
- 1 2 3 4 "Le 20è siècle: vers un lycée dédié aux classes prépas". Association des parents d'élèves du lycée Saint Louis (in French). Retrieved 2016-02-15.
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- ↑ Haïdar, Riad. Sous la lumière, les hommes (in French). EDP Sciences. ISBN 9782759812059.
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- 1 2 3 Hargittai, István. "The road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, science, and scientists", p. 121. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-850912-X. Accessed June 10, 2013. "Arthur Kornberg (M59), Jerome Karle (C85), and Paul Berg (C80) all went to the Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn."
- ↑ Autobiography: Jerome Karle, Nobel Prize. Accessed June 10, 2013.
- ↑ Feynman, Richard (1997). Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman. W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-31604-1.
- 1 2 3 Brosh, Brendan. "Far Rockaway High to close its doors", Daily News (New York), December 7, 2007. Accessed June 11, 2013. "The school's alums include billionaire financier Carl Icahn and Nobel Prize winners Richard Feynman, Baruch Blumberg and Burton Richter."
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- ↑ Guide to the Albert A. Michelson Papers 1891-1969, University of Chicago Library. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852 in Strelno, Poland (then a part of Prussia) to Samuel and Rosalie Przlubska Michelson. Two years later the Michelson family left Strelno for Murphys, California where his father opened a dry goods store. Michelson attended Lincoln Grammar School in San Francisco, and graduated from Boys’ High School in 1869."
- ↑ Davis, Hallowell. "Joseph Erlanger: 1874-1964, National Academy of Sciences, 1970. Accessed June 12, 2013. "He tells of his early schooling at the San FranciscoBoys' High School where he took the three-year 'classical' course."
- ↑ Eric A. Cornell Autobiography, Nobel Prize. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. I spent my last year of high school there, at Lowell High School. Lowell High was a so-called 'magnet school,' drawing academically inclined students from all over the city."
- ↑ George H. Whipple - Biography, Nobel Prize. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Whipple was educated at Andover Academy and then went to Yale University, where he took his A.B.degree in 1900."
- ↑ William Vickrey: Biography, Nobel Prize. Accessed June 12, 2013. "William S. Vickrey was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1914. His elementary and secondary education were in Europe and the United States, with graduation from Phillips Andover Academy in 1931."
- ↑ Chang, Kenneth. "William Knowles, Nobel Winner in Chemistry, Dies at 95", The New York Times, June 15, 2012. Accessed June 12, 2013. "William Standish Knowles was born in Taunton, Mass., on June 1, 1917. He graduated a year early from the Berkshire School, a boarding school in western Massachusetts, and was admitted to Harvard. But after being strongly advised that he was not socially mature enough for college, he did a second senior year of high school at another boarding school, Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass."
- ↑ "Lawrence Bragg - Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
- ↑ "Sir Howard Florey - Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
- ↑ Warren, J. Robin. "J. Robin Warren - Autobiography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Schulte, Mark. "NYC’s Nobel gold; City grads have won 42 prizes", New York Post, October 15, 2012. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Townsend Harris also has three — Herbert Hauptman (Chemistry), Julian Schwinger (Physics) and Kenneth Arrow (Economics).... Three female graduates of NYC public high schools won the Nobel in Medicine: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow and Gertrude Elion (Walton HS) and Barbara McClintock (Erasmus Hall). "
- 1 2 3 Bunick, Nicola. "The Development of Urbana's University Laboratory High School", Illinois History, December 1998. Accessed June 12, 2013. "It seemed as though Uni would close. The possibility received much media attention, because the very same day the closing was announced, it was also announced that Uni alumnus James Tobin had just received a Nobel prize for economics. He joined two other Uni Nobel laureates, Philip Anderson for physics, and Hamilton O. Smith for medicine."
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- ↑ Amos, Jonathan (8 October 2013) Higgs: Five decades of noble endeavour BBC News Science and Environment; retrieved 8 August 2014
- ↑ Boyer, David (March 11, 2001). "NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: FLATBUSH; Grads Hail Erasmus as It Enters a Fourth Century". The New York Times. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
- ↑ "Eric R. Kandel: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
In 1944, when I graduated from the Yeshiva of Flatbush elementary school, it did not as yet have a high school. I went instead to Erasmus Hall High School, a local public high school in Brooklyn that was then academically very strong.
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- ↑ "Robert W. Holley - Biography". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
- ↑ "Edwin G. Krebs - Autobiography". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
- ↑ Susan Sample (2007). "Scientist Profile: Mario Capecchi". University of Utah.
- ↑ Kenneth G. Wilson. "Kenneth G. Wilson — Biographical Sketch". The Nobel Foundation.
- ↑ "Owen Chamberlain 1920-2006: A Biographical Memoir" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
- ↑ Tom Avril (October 4, 2011). "Astrophysicist with Philly roots awarded Nobel Prize". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ "Nobel Laureate Charles Kao returns to Alma Mater in HK". People's Daily Online. 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
- ↑ Rodbell, Martin (1994). "Autobiography". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved August 2, 2007.
- ↑ Pople, John (1998). "Autobiography". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved October 27, 2008.
- ↑ Hodgkin, Dorothy (1964). "Autobiography". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
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- ↑ "Orhan Pamuk - Bio-bibliography". Nobel Foundation. 2006. Retrieved February 11, 2007.
- ↑ Sperans. (1932.) "Bright students: intermediate stage", The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 January.
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- ↑ Monrovia High School graduate wins Nobel Prize in economics
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- ↑ "Steven Chu - Autobiography". Nobel Foundation. 1997. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
- ↑ "Ex-Greenwich resident wins Nobel Prize in economics". Connecticut Post. 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ Spivey, Mark. "Watchung Hills graduate shares Nobel Prize in physics", Daily Record (Morristown), October 4, 2011. Accessed October 5, 2011. "Riess, who grew up in Warren, gave a shout-out to retired teacher Jeff Charney, saying his interest in science first was piqued at Watchung Hills."
- ↑ Mike Dunham (October 5, 2011). "Bartlett teachers remember Nobel-winning student". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ↑ "Hsinchu Senior High School". Retrieved Jan 20, 2013.
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