The Bronx High School of Science has churned out slightly more than its share of Nobel Prize winners in physics over the years: seven, going back to 1972, more than any high school in the country.
But the public school had never been able to boast a Nobel in chemistry until today, when Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz, class of '59 and a professor at Duke University‘s medical center, was one of two American scientists awarded the prize for their work figuring out how the human body's cells respond to external signals - for example, speeding the heart when danger approaches.
Dr. Lefkowitz told The Times the big news would force him to postpone a much-needed haircut.
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