List of Bronx High School of Science alumni

The following are a list of notable people who attended the Bronx High School of Science.

Among the collective honors claimed by alumni of the school are:

• Eight Nobel Prizes (7 in physics, 1 in chemistry).
• Eight Pulitzer Prizes by seven alumni.
• Two sitting members of the United States House of Representatives.
• Six winners of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor bestowed by the U.S. President and thus far awarded to 425 scientists and engineers.
• Twenty-nine members of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS), an honor attained by only about 2,000 American scientists.
• Twenty-two Bronx Science graduates are members of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
• Ten are members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
• One is a member of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).
• Two are recipients of the Turing Award, the top prize in Computer Science.
• Two Academy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

These numbers may be underestimates, as the high school origins of these award winners is not always known.

Science

Nobel Prize-winning Scientists

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) is the co–developer of BCS theory, and is the namesake of Cooper pairs.
• Sheldon Lee Glashow (1950) is a physicist who proposed the modern electroweak theory (shared the 1979 prize with Weinberg).
• Steven Weinberg (1950) is a physicist who proposed the modern electroweak theory (shared the 1979 prize with Glashow).
• Melvin Schwartz (1949) was a physicist who co–developed the neutrino beam method demonstrating of the doublet structure of the lepton through the discovery of the muon neutrino.
• Russell A. Hulse (1966) is an astrophysicist who co–discovered the first binary pulsar; providing significant evidence in support of the theory of general relativity.
• H. David Politzer (1966) is a physicist who co–discovered asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.
• Roy J. Glauber (1941) is a physicist who made contributions to the quantum theory of optical coherence.
• Robert J. Lefkowitz (1959), is a biochemist known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors.

No other secondary school in the world has as many alumni who have won Nobel Prizes.

Other science and engineering alumni

• Bruce Ames (1946) is a biologist and inventor of the Ames Test. He is a winner of the National Medal of Science.
• Hans Baruch, physiologist/inventor.
• Ira Black was a neuroscientist and stem cell researcher who served as the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.
• Gregory Chaitin (1964) is a mathematician, computer scientist, and author. He is one of the founders of algorithmic information theory, and the namesake of Chaitin's constant.
• Michael H. Hart, astrophysicist who has also written three books on history.
• Martin Hellman (1962) is an electrical engineer and cryptologist who was instrumental in the development of public-key cryptography.
• Leonard Kleinrock (1951) is an electrical engineer and computer scientist. He oversaw the first ARPANET connection to the first node at UCLA, and supervised sending the first message over what would become the internet.
• Andrew R. Koenig (1968) is a computer scientist, inventor, and author, retired from Bell Labs
• Leslie Lamport (1957) is a computer scientist noted for fundamental contributions to Theory of Computing, especially his work in distributed systems, as well as the development of LaTeX. He is the 2013 recipient of the ACM Turing Award. He is also the namesake of the Lamport signature and Lamport's scheme.
• Norman Levitt (1960) was an author and mathematics professor at Rutgers University. A figure in the fight against anti-intellectualism, his book Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science inspired the Sokal Affair.
• Marvin Minsky (1945) is a cognitive scientist, computer scientist and inventor. A pioneer in artificial intelligence, he was a co-founder of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He authored Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine. He patented the confocal microscope, and is a recipient of the Turing Award.
• Robert Moog (1952) was an electrical engineer who was a pioneer in the development of electronic music, notably for the invention of the Moog synthesizers, still produced by his namesake company.
• Al Nagler (1953) is an optical engineer and founder of Televue. Among his contributions, he designed the optics for the U.S. Army's first night vision goggles and for the astronaut training simulators for Gemini program and Apollo lunar lander.
• Jay Pasachoff (1959) is an astronomy professor at Williams College. He is a noted textbook writer, expert in astronomy education, and director of the Hopkins Observatory. Asteroid 5100 Pasachoff is named in his honor.
• Stuart Alan Rice, theoretical chemist and physical chemist.
• Frank Rosenblatt (1946) was a computer pioneer, noted for designing Perceptron, one of the first artificial feedforward neural networks. He is the namesake of the Frank Rosenblatt Award given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
• Jun John Sakurai (1951) was a particle physicist and author, noted for his work on vector mesons. He is the namesake of the Sakurai Prize awarded annually by the American Physical Society.
• Ben Shneiderman (1964) developer of computer visualization and human-computer interaction.
• Lawrence B. Slobodkin was a pioneer in the field of modern ecology.
• Leonard Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory.
• Joseph F. Traub, computer scientist.
• Neil deGrasse Tyson (1976) is an astrophysicist and current Director of the Hayden Planetarium. He is also known for his work on educational television, such as NOVA ScienceNOW and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. He is the namesake of Asteroid 13123 Tyson.
• George Yancopoulos (1976) is a medical researcher in the field of molecular Immunology. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he is also the founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron.
• Norton Zinder (1945) was an American biologist in the field of molecular biology, most famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. In 1966, Zinder was awarded the NAS Award in Molecular Biology from the National Academy of Sciences, became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969, and led a lab at Rockefeller University until shortly before his death.

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Letters and journalism

Pulitzer Prize winners

• William Sherman (1963) is a reporter at the New York Daily News, winning the 1974 award for Local Investigative Special Reporting.
• William Safire (1947) was an author and speechwriter, winning the 1978 award for Commentary.
• Joseph Lelyveld (1954) is a journalist and author who was Executive Editor at The New York Times (1994–2001). He won the 1986 award for General Non-Fiction (Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White).
• Bernard L. Stein (1959) is the Editor Emeritus of the Riverdale Press and current editor of Hunts Point Express and the Mott Haven Herald, put out by his students at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where he is professor of journalism. He won the 1998 award for Editorial Writing.
• William Taubman (1958) is a professor of political science at Amherst College. He won the 2004 award for Biography or Autobiography for Khrushchev: The Man and His Era.
• Gene Weingarten (1968) is a reporter and columnist for The Washington Post. He won the 2008 and 2010 awards for Feature Writing.
• Howard Saltz (1978) is the Editor of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, in Fort Lauderdale. The newspaper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service, the Pulitzer's highest honor, in 2013.

Other alumni in the field of letters and journalism

• Judith Baumel (1973) is a poet, and 1987 recipient of the Walt Whitman Award.
• Peter S. Beagle (1955) is an author, singer, and guitarist, best known for The Last Unicorn.
• Jennifer Belle is a writer.
• Charles Bernstein, poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar.
• Harold Bloom (1947) is an influential literary critic, MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and Professor of English at Yale University.
• Mark Boal (1991) is a journalist and screenwriter. He won two Oscars as screenwriter and producer of The Hurt Locker.
• Samuel R. Delany (1960) is a science fiction author (Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"). He has received 4 Nebula Awards and 2 Hugo Awards.
• E. L. Doctorow (1948) is an author (The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Billy Bathgate, and The March). He received the National Humanities Medal in 1998.
• John T. Georgopoulos (1982) is an award-winning fantasy sports journalist, writer and broadcast radio host.
• Gerald Jay Goldberg, professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, novelist and critic.
• Jeff Greenfield (1960) is a television journalist and political analyst for CBS News. He is also an author (The People's Choice: A Novel).
• Pablo Guzmán (as Paul Guzman) (1968) is a television journalist for WCBS-2 in New York. Prior to his work as a reporter, he was a spokesman for the Young Lords.
• Clyde Haberman (1962) is a columnist for the New York Times.
• Marilyn Hacker (1959) is a poet, critic, translator, and recipient of the National Book Award.
• Gary Lee Horn (1974) is a radio journalist who has worked at The United Stations Radio Network, WPIX-FM, and WHCN in Hartford, CT.
• Lars-Erik Nelson (1959) was an award–winning correspondent and columnist for the New York Daily News, Newsweek, and Newsday.
• Otto Penzler (1959) is an editor and collector, author, and collector of espionage and thriller books. He received an Edgar award for his Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection.
• Martin Peretz (1955) is the former owner of, and current editor-in-chief of The New Republic magazine.
• Kevin Phillips (1957) is an author and political analyst.
• Richard Price (1967) is an author (Bloodbrothers, Clockers, Freedomland, Lush Life) and Oscar–nominated screenwriter (The Color of Money).
• Michael Powell, sports writer for New York Times
• Dava Sobel (1964) is an author, best known for her popular expositions in the sciences (Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Galileo's Daughter).
• Norman Spinrad (1957) is a science fiction author (The Solarians, Bug Jack Barron, The Iron Dream) and screenwriter ("The Doomsday Machine" from Star Trek).
• Gary Weiss (1971) is a journalist and author.
• Dave Winer 1972, computer scientist, blogger

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Public service, activism, and government

• Harold Brown (1943) is a scientist and former United States Secretary of Defense (1977–81).
• Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (1960) was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Black Panther Party. He was a notable figure in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
• Majora Carter (1984) is an Urban Revitalization Strategist, 2005 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant", and a 2010 Peabody Award winner.
• Richard Danzig (1961) is a lawyer who served as secretary of the Navy (1998–2001), and is currently the chair of the Center for a New American Security.
• Jeffrey Dinowitz is a member of the New York State Assembly (1994–present), representing the 81st District.
• Todd Gitlin (1959) is a writer and social critic who served as president of the Students for a Democratic Society.
• Harrison J. Goldin (1953) is a former New York City Comptroller (1974–89), and member of the New York State Senate (1966–73).
• Alan Grayson (1975) is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Florida's 8th congressional district (2009–present).
• Howard Gutman, lawyer, actor, and former United States Ambassador to Belgium.
• Dora Irizarry (1972) is a United States District Judge, serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2004–present).
• Lawrence F. Klepper (1945) public-interest attorney and Director, Legal Aid Society of Albany, NY, 1967-83
• Kenneth Kronberg, 1964, printing company owner, LaRouche movement member
• Bill Lann Lee (1967) is a former U.S. Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department (1997–2001). He was the first Asian–American to head the Civil Rights Division.
• Ronald Lauder (1961) is a businessman, art collector, and heir to the Estee Lauder fortune who served as US Ambassador to Austria. He is the current president of the World Jewish Congress.
• Harold O. Levy (1970) is a former New York City School Chancellor (2000–02).
• John Liu (1985) is a former New York City Councilman (2002–09) and current New York City Comptroller. He is the first Asian–American member of the New York City Council, and the first to hold citywide office.
• Nita Lowey (1955) is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1989–present), currently representing New York's 18th congressional district.
• Robert Price (1950) is New York State Commissioner of Investigation. He formerly served as a Deputy Mayor of New York City.
• Donald L. Ritter is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–93), representing Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district.
• Martha Shelley, lesbian activist, feminist, writer, and poet
• Toby Ann Stavisky, Member of the New York State Senate
• Henry J. Stern, member of the New York City Council and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
• Terence Tolbert (1982) was a political operative and consultant for various New York State politicians. He was also involved in Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

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Academia

• Bruce Ackerman (1960) is a constitutional law scholar working at the Yale Law School.
• Joseph Capecci (1951) inventor, architect, academic dean
• Charles Cogen, president of New York City’s United Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers
• Jeffrey S. Flier (1964) is the Dean of Harvard Medical School.
• Gene Grossman (1973) is the former Chair, Department of Economics, Princeton University.
• Martin Jay (1961) is an intellectual historian at the University of California Berkeley.
• Daniel Lowenstein (1960) is Director, Center for Liberal Arts and Institutions, UCLA; First Chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission.
• Anthony Marx (1977) is the current president and CEO of the New York Public Library and former president of Amherst College.
• George Ritzer (1958) is a sociologist.
• Michael I. Sovern is the former President of Columbia University.
• Jack Russell Weinstein (1987) is a philosopher and radio personality. He is host of Public Radio's Why? Philosophical Discussions Aboit Everyday Life, and Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Philosophy in Publice Life at University of North Dakota.
• Barry Wellman (1959) is a sociologist and founder of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the developer of the theory of "networked individualism," coauthor of Networked: The New Social Operating System, and a winner of the Oxford Internet Institute's Career Achievement Award.
• Deborah Frank Lockhart (1965) is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Fine arts

• Elliott Landy (1959) is a photographer noted for his work with Rock musicians, especially for his work at the Woodstock Festival.
• Daniel Libeskind (1965) is an architect whose designs include Freedom Tower, Jewish Museum Berlin, Felix Nussbaum Haus, and the Royal Ontario Museum.
• Emery Roth, architect.

Performing arts

• Emanuel Azenberg is a multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning producer, particularly noted for his long professional relationship with Neil Simon.
• James Bethea (1982) is a television producer and executive.
• Mark Boal (1991) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter ("Hurt Locker," "Zero Dark Thirty")
• Dominic Chianese (1948) is a singer and actor known for his work on film (The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon) and on television (Junior Soprano on The Sopranos).
• Jon Cryer (1983) is two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning actor (Pretty in Pink, Hot Shots!, Two and a Half Men).
• Bobby Darin (as Walden Robert Cassotto) (1953) was an Oscar nominated actor, best known for his work as a songwriter and recording artist ("Mack the Knife", "Beyond the Sea").
• Lewis Erskine (1975) is an Emmy and Eddie award winning film editor for his work on "Freedom Riders" documentary.
• Jonah Falcon (1988) is an actor and talk show personality.
• Jon Favreau (1984) is a screenwriter, actor (Rudy, Swingers), and director (Elf, Iron Man).
• Michael Hirsh is the head of the Cookie Jar group (animation), and founder of Nelvana animation.
• Don Kirshner was a music producer and songwriter, best known for his work with The Monkees and for his television show Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.
• James Kyson Lee (1993) is an actor, best known for his role as Ando Masahashi on the television series Heroes.
• Tom Paley (1945) is a banjo and fiddle player, best known for his association with old-time music. He co–founded the New Lost City Ramblers.
• Paul Provenza (1975) is an actor and comedian.
• Christopher "Kid" Reid (1982) is a rap musician, comedian, and actor, best known for being one half of the group Kid 'n Play.
• Daphne Maxwell Reid (1966) is an actress (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Frank's Place), producer, and former model. She was the first African–American homecoming queen at Northwestern University, and the first African–American to appear on the cover of Glamour.
• David Ren is a writer/director.
• Maggie Siff, actress.
• Mel Simon, businessman and film producer.
• Karina Smirnoff is an award–winning professional ballroom Latin dancer, who was featured on seven seasons of Dancing With the Stars.
• Worley Thorne is a TV screenwriter and script consultant.
• Eliot Wald (1962) is a TV and film writer ("Saturday Night Live," "Camp Nowhere").
• Boaz Yakin is a screenwriter and director

Business, finance, and economics

• Rose Marie Bravo (1969) is the Vice Chairman of Burberry and former President of Saks Fifth Avenue.
• Millard Drexler (1962) is the CEO of J.Crew and former CEO of Gap.
• Jerald G. Fishman,1962, CEO, Analog Devices
• David Karp is the founder of Tumblr.
• Ray King, entrepreneur
• Phil Libin (1989) is the CEO of EverNote
• Jeffrey A. Romoff, President and CEO, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
• Leonard Lauder (1950) is the former president and current Chairman of the Board of Estée Lauder Companies, and an heir to the Estee Lauder fortune.

Sports and competition

• Michael Kay (1978) is a New York Yankees sportscaster and current host of The Michael Kay Show.
• Jeanette Lee is a professional pool player, known by her nickname "The Black Widow".
• Ira Rubin (1946), was a contract bridge player known as "The Beast" for his aggressive playing style and for inventing three famous bidding systems.
• Joel Sherman (1979) is a Scrabble champion (1997, World Champion; 2002 US Champion).

• Herb Stempel is a former contestant on the television game show Twenty One known for his contest against Charles Van Doren, and for his role in exposing the subsequent quiz show scandals.
• Wolf Wigo (1991) is a former Olympic water polo player who was captain of the US National Water Polo Team.

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