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The Bronx High School of Science is a public high school in the Bronx, New York City. Founded in 1938 with a traditional focus on mathematics and science, "Bronx Science," as the school is known, is one of a triumvirate of elite public schools in New York City, and is often hailed as one of the best high schools in America.Together with Stuyvesant High School (in Manhattan) and Brooklyn Technical High School, Bronx Science is one of three original Specialized Science High Schools of New York City.
Admission to the three schools is by competitive examination only, and only residents of the five boroughs of the City of New York are eligible to attend.
The school is a perennial leader in the Intel/Westinghouse science competition.
It is a member of the NCSSSMST.
Bronx Science counts six Nobel Prize winners among its graduates, the most of any secondary school in the world, and five Pulitzer Prize winners. Other noted graduates include columnist William Safire and former Executive Editor Joseph Lelyveld of The New York Times, singer Bobby Darin, author Samuel Delany, actors Jon FavreauJon Favreau was born on 19 October 1966 in Queens, New York. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and attended Queens College and worked on Wall Street before moving to Chicago to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. While in Chicago, Favreau and Jon CryerJohn Cryer (Born: April 16, 1965 in New York, New York, USA) is an American actor, writer and producer. Filmography Actor The Metro Chase (2003). Stamm Two and a Half Men (2003). as Alan Harper Stripperella (2003) (voice) Hey Joel (2003) (voice). as Joel, Black Power activist Stokely CarmichaelStokely Carmichael ( June 29, 1941 November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture was an American Black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party. He later became a Black separatist and Pan-Africanist., Olympic water polo player Wolf Wigo , Gregory ChaitinGregory J. Chaitin (born 1947) is an American contemporary mathematician and computer scientist. Chaitin, beginning in the late 1960s, made important contributions to algorithmic information theory, in particular a new incompleteness theorem similar in sp, Leslie LamportLeslie Lamport is an American computer scientist. Lamport received a B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in mathematics in 1960. He also earned M. degrees from Brandeis University in 1963 and 1972, both also in mathematics. In computer scien, and architect Daniel LibeskindImperial War Museum North in Manchester. Jewish Museum in Berlin Daniel Libeskind born May 12, 1946 in Lodz, Poland, the son of Holocaust survivors, is an architect who became a U. citizen in 1965. He is a 1965 alumnus of The Bronx High School of Science..
The current Principal is Ms. Valerie J. Reidy.
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