They were in the same class at the Bronx High School of Science in the late 1940s; they both attended Cornell University; and they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 (with Abdus Salam).

His early interest in science ... teachers at the Bronx High School of Science. One of his classmates there was Sheldon Glashow; about 25 years later they would share the Nobel Prize in physics.