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Bronx physics

02 Nov 2010

With seven of its former pupils having gone on to win a Nobel Prize for Physics, the Bronx High School of Science is no ordinary school. Robert P Crease finds out why

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Every morning about 3000 students at the Bronx High School of Science in New York pass beneath a hug

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Robert P Crease is chairman of the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, and historian at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, US. He is the father of a Bronx Science junior now taking his first physics course, e-mail rcrease@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
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