a hundred awesome autodidactics
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Albert Einstein: self-taught physicist; formulated both relativity theories and won 1921 nobel prize
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John Harrison: self-taught clockmaker; designed and built world's first successful maritime clock
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Tadao Ando: self-taught architect; won 1995 Pritzker Architecture Prize among many others
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Mary Leakey: self-taught archaeologist; found artifacts that redefined the study of human evolution
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Bill Gates: self-taught programmer; founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, richest man on earth
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Léon Foucault: self-taught physicist; used pendulum to prove the earth's rotation among other things
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Created by carielewyn on Jul 02, 2006.
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