Nobel Prize winning Princeton professor returns to former school in Bellshill

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Scotland’s newest Nobel Prize-winner paid an emotional return to his former secondary school in North Lanarkshire.Princeton University’s Professor David MacMillan spent more than three hours chatting to pupils and staff at Bellshill Academy about his time there.He also spoke about what it felt to win the Nobel Prize and about his other career successes on his first visit to the school since leaving in 1985.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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As they passed through the assembly hall, he told them of the occasions when his band played on the stage in the hall when he was sixteen years old.“We were a decent group and had a lot of fun times, but not good enough to go that much further,” he reflected.As part of his ongoing