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.
"This is the eighth graduate from Bronx Science to win a Nobel Prize and reflects the top-notch education offered in our schools," Walcott said.
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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