The Bronx school that produces Nobel winners
The Bronx school that produces Nobel winners By Olatz Arrieta BBC Mundo With such an illustrious alumni, the Bronx High School of Science is tough to get into With its green doors and brown hallways, the Bronx High School of Science looks like many others in New York. But appearances can be deceptive. This high school is a veritable factory of Nobel prize winners in science - no other school in the United States has produced more. Eight alumni of the school have received a Nobel Prize in Physics or Chemistry since 1972. At the main entrance, next to the display case of trophies, there is a poster with photographs of the winners. The only person missing is the latest recipient, Robert F Lefkowitz, who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and studied here in the 1950s. Hopeful future Nobel prize winners studying here are, like many students in New York's public schools, the children of immigrants - t