List of Nobel laureates by secondary school affiliation
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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. The list is highly biased, omitting for example all German laureats, of which there are many.
(Note: this list is very incomplete, especially for the many high schools that have one alumnus or alumna who is a Nobel Prize winner.)
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."
↑ 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."
↑ 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."
↑ 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."
1 2 3 4 Klein, Alec. A Class Apart, p. 26. Simon & Schuster, 2007. ISBN1416545530. 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...."
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 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."
↑ 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."
↑ 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."
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."
↑ "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.
↑ "Name Droppers", Haaretz, 18 June 2003, retrieved on 15 October 2012
↑ "Linus Pauling – Biographical". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 10 October 2016. [Pauling] attended Washington High School in Portland but because of a echnicality did not receive his diploma until 1962, long after he had received his bachelor's degree from Oregon State College in 1922, his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in 1925, and honorary degrees from universities in seven countries [and two Nobel prizes].
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