1. Bronx High School of Science
http://www.answers.com/topic/bronx-high-school-of-science
Bronx Science counts six Nobel Prize winners among its graduates, more than any other secondary school in the world:
Leon N. Cooper '47, 1972, Brown University
Melvin Schwartz '49, 1988, Columbia University
Sheldon L. Glashow '50, 1979, Boston University
Steven Weinberg '50, 1979, University of Texas at Austin
Russell A. Hulse '66, 1993, Princeton University
H. David Politzer '66, 2004, California Institute of Technology
2. University of Illinois Laboratory High School
http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/about_uni/HistoryofUni/alumni.htm
Philip Anderson, Princeton University
(1923- ) won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1977. He shared the prize with John Van Vleck and Nevill Mott for their “fundamental theoretic investigation of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.” Anderson graduated from University High School in 1940.
Hamilton Smith, Johns Hopkins University
(1931- ) shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for “the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics.” Smith graduated from University High School in 1948.
James Tobin, Yale University
(1918-2002) won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1981. Tobin’s work provided “a basis for understanding how subjects actually behave when they acquire different assets and incur debts” by his statement of the “portfolio selection theory” of investment. Tobin graduated from University High School in 1935.
3. 京都第三高級中學 (Japan)
三高出了三位諾貝爾物理獎獲得者:
湯川秀樹 (Hideki Yukawa), Kyoto Imperial University
朝永振一郎 (Sin-Itiro Tomonaga), Tokyo University of Education
江崎玲於奈 (Leo Esaki), IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center