This year's Intel Science Talent Search competition has been won by three American high school seniors. The competition is also called as the 'Super Bowl of Science'.

The competition which is sponsored by Intel and is run by the non-profit Society & the Public is the nation's oldest and is considered to be most prestigious for high school seniors.

The competition started in 1942 as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Later in 1998 Intel became the sponsor of the search.

Winners of the top three position of this year's competition includes Noah Golowich, 17, of Lexington, Massachusetts; Andrew Jin, 17, of San Jose, California and Michael Hofmann Winer, 18, of North Bethesda, Maryland.

The winners of this year's competition were honored at a ceremony held in Washington, D. C. The trio received a joint amount of $150,000 in prizes.

Golowich was awarded the First Place Medal of Distinction for Basic Research for developing a proof in the area of Ramsey theory, a field of mathematics based on finding types of structure in large and complicated systems, said sources.

Jin on the other hand was awarded a First Place Medal of Distinction for Global Good in recognition of his development of a machine learning algorithm to identify adaptive mutations across the human genome.

It has been told that Jin's system was used to analyze massive public genomic datasets. Jin's system helped discover more than 100 adaptive mutations related to immune response, metabolism, brain development, and schizophrenia in real DNA sequences.

Michael Hofmann Winer received Intel's First Place Medal of Distinction for Innovation for his research into fundamental quasi-particles of sound, called phonons, interact with electrons.

The organizers of the competition said that this year's Intel Science Talent Show saw nearly 1,844 high school seniors who entered the second round of the competition.