Nobel winner went to Bronx Science HS

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott issued a statement Wednesday congratulating Robert Lefkowitz.

Walcott says Lefkowitz is the eighth Bronx Science graduate to win a Nobel Prize.

Lefkowitz is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.

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