Jack Andraka

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What Wikipedia says

Jack Thomas Andraka (born January 8, 1997) is an American who achieved fame in 2012 for having won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair that year as a high school student, with a method to possibly detect the early stages of pancreatic and other cancers, the originality and viability of which was subsequently questioned.

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