When Evelyn Witkin received the National Medal of Science from President George W. Bush in 2002, at age 81, she might have suspected that it would be the high point of an illustrious career. Perhaps it would be the icing on the cake of the 2000 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, awarded for distinguished service to…
What do eight Nobel Prize winners, five Pulitzer Prize winners, Academy Award and Emmy winners and my husband, Joseph Leon (‘46) — at one time director of the Electron Microscope Laboratory at Columbia University — have in common? All were graduates of The Bronx High School of Science, which on April 20 held its 75th…
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