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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
A senior at Rappahannock County High School has made history.
Jim Clark, 18, is the first Rappahannock student to reach the top of the science world, winning awards in several national and international science competitions, including the most famous of them all, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
As one of the 40 Westinghouse finalists, 18-year-old Jim Clark-was given an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington D.C. this past week, where 10 nationally known scholars chose the top 10 winners.
Jim was not among the top 10, but not to worry — of the five former Westinghouse finalists that went on to win Nobel prizes, only one was among the final 10. Jim beat 1,829 contestants from 735 high schools in all 50 states to be one of the finalists.
The Westinghouse competition, founded 55 years ago, is renowned for identifying America’s future leaders in science. Besides its Nobel prize winners, nine former finalists have received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships, and two have earned the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics.
Jim developed new computer methods for solving the traveling salesman problem, dubbed TSP. In the problem, a traveling salesman wishes to find the shortest route to visit each of his assigned cities and return him to his starting city.
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