Nobel Prize-winning scientists[edit]
The Bronx High School of Science counts eight Nobel Prize recipients as graduates. Seven of these Nobel laureates received their prize in the field of physics. Robert J. Lefkowitz was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Leon N. Cooper (1947), co–developer of BCS theory; namesake of Cooper pairs[1][2]
- Sheldon Lee Glashow (1950), physicist who proposed the modern electroweak theory (shared the 1979 prize with Weinberg)[1][2][3]
- Roy J. Glauber (1941), physicist who made contributions to the quantum theory of optical coherence[4]
- Russell A. Hulse (1966), astrophysicist who co–discovered the first binary pulsar, providing significant evidence in support of the theory of general relativity[1][5]
- Robert J. Lefkowitz (1959), biochemist known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors
- H. David Politzer (1966), physicist who co–discovered asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics[6]
- Melvin Schwartz (1949), physicist who co–developed the neutrino beam method demonstrating of the doublet structure of the lepton through the discovery of the muon neutrino[1][7]
- Steven Weinberg (1950), physicist who proposed the modern electroweak theory (shared the 1979 prize with Glashow)[1][2]
