Nobel Prize 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.

[Note: this list is very incomplete, especially for the many high schools that have one alumnus or alumna who is a Nobel Prize winner.]

Affiliations	School	Laureate	Field	Year of Award	Class of	University
7	Bronx High School of Science	Leon N. Cooper	Physics	1972	1947	Brown University
		Sheldon Glashow[1]	Physics	1979	1950	Columbia University
		Steven Weinberg	Physics	1979	1950	Boston University
		Melvin Schwartz	Physics	1988	1949	University of Texas at Austin
		Russell Hulse	Physics	1993	1966	Princeton University
		H. David Politzer	Physics	2004	1966	California Institute of Technology
		Roy Glauber	Physics	2005	1941	Harvard University
4	Stuyvesant High School	Joshua Lederberg[2]	Medicine	1958	1941	Rockefeller University
		Roald Hoffmann[3]	Chemistry	1981	1954	Cornell University
		Robert Fogel[4]	Economics	1993	1944	Cornell University
		Richard Axel[5]	Medicine	2004	1963	Columbia University
3	Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn, NY)	Arthur Kornberg	Medicine	1959	1933	Stanford University
		Paul Berg	Chemistry	1980	1943	Stanford University
		Jerome Karle	Chemistry	1985	1933	City College of New York
3	James Madison High School (Brooklyn, NY)	Stanley Cohen	Medicine	1986	1939	Vanderbilt University
		Robert Solow	Economics	1987	1940	MIT
		Gary Becker	Economics	1992	1947	University of Chicago
3	St Peter's College, Adelaide, Australia	William Lawrence Bragg[6]	Physics	1915	1903	University of Adelaide
		Howard Walter Florey[7]	Medicine	1945	1916	The Queen's College, Oxford
		J. Robin Warren[8]	Medicine	2005	?	University of Adelaide
3	University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, USA	Philip W. Anderson	Physics	1977	1940	Harvard University
		Hamilton O. Smith	Medicine	1978	1948	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
		James Tobin	Economics	1981	1935	Harvard University
3	Westminster School, London	Edgar Adrian	Medicine	1932		University of Cambridge
		Andrew Huxley	Medicine	1963		University of Cambridge
		Richard Stone	Economics	1984		University of Cambridge
2	Brooklyn Technical High School	Arno Penzias	Physics	1978	1947	Bell Labs
		George Wald	Biology	1987	1922	Harvard University
2	Erasmus Hall High School	Barbara McClintock[9]	Medicine or Physiology	1983	1919	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
		Eric Kandel[10]	Medicine or Physiology	2000	1944	Columbia University
2	Hebrew University High School, Israel	Daniel Kahneman	Economics	2002	1951	Princeton University
		David Gross	Physics	2004	1959	University of California, Santa Barbara
2	The Perse School, UK	George Paget Thomson	Physics	1937	?	University of Cambridge
		Ronald G. W. Norrish	Chemistry	1967	?	University of Cambridge
2	St Columb's College, Derry, Northern Ireland	Seamus Heaney	Literature	1995	1957	Queen's University of Belfast
		John Hume	Peace	1998	1955	St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland
1	Baltimore City College	Martin Rodbell[11]	Physiology or Medicine	1994	1943	Johns Hopkins University University of Washington
1	The Geelong College, Australia	Frank Macfarlane Burnet[12]	Medicine	1960	?	University of Melbourne University of London
1	Indooroopilly State High School, Australia	Peter Doherty	Medicine	1996	?	University of Queensland University of Edinburgh
1	Melbourne High School (Victoria), Australia	John Carew Eccles	Medicine	1963	?	University of Melbourne University of Oxford
1	Newman College, Perth, Australia	Barry Marshall	Medicine	2005	?	University of Western Australia
1	Robert College, Turkey	Orhan Pamuk[13]	Literature	2006	1970	Istanbul University
1	Colegio Saint Francis, San José, Costa Rica	Oscar Arias Sanchez	Peace	1987	1957	Universidad de Costa Rica
1	Sydney Boys High School, Australia	John Cornforth	Chemistry	1975	?	University of Sydney University of Oxford

[edit] References and notes

1. ^ Glashow, Sheldon. Sheldon Glashow - The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 - Autobiography. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-06-02.
2. ^ Joshua Lederberg - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 - Biography (1958). Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
3. ^ Roald Hoffmann's land between chemistry, poetry and philosophy. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
4. ^ "The human equation" (May/June 2007). The University of Chicago Magazine 99 (5). University of Chicago. 
5. ^ Eisner, Robin (Winter 2005). Richard Axel: One of the Nobility in Science. Columbia University. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
6. ^ Lawrence Bragg - Biography. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-06-02.
7. ^ Sir Howard Florey - Biography. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-06-02.
8. ^ Warren, J. Robin. J. Robin Warren - Autobiography. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-06-02.
9. ^ Boyer, David. "NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: FLATBUSH; Grads Hail Erasmus as It Enters a Fourth Century", The New York Times, 2001-03-11. 
10. ^ Eric R. Kandel: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000. Retrieved on 2007-09-20. “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.”
11. ^ Rodbell, Martin (1994). Autobiography. The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-08-02.
12. ^ Sexton, Christopher (1999). Burnet, a Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-551165-4. 
13. ^ Orhan Pamuk - Bio-bibliography. Nobel Foundation (2006). Retrieved on 2007-02-11.