In a halfcentury. the Westinghouse Science Talr1t Search has produced five Nobel laud.ates. two winners of the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics. and eight winners of MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. and 28 members of the National Academy of Sciences. Not a bad record. I am particularly proud of the role that New York high schools have played in this unique program. Marina PraJmovsky of Farmingdale. NY. was one of the first winners in 1942. Roald Hoffmann. a refugee from the Nazis who immigrated with his mother from Poland to New York City In 1949. studied cosmic rays at Stuyvesant High School in New York City and won the Science Talent Search in 1955. Professor Hoffmann. now at Cornell University. went on to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1981. Sheldon L.
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