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1. Albert Einstein: self-taught physicist; formulated both relativity theories and won 1921 nobel prize  
2. John Harrison: self-taught clockmaker; designed and built world's first successful maritime clock  
3. Tadao Ando: self-taught architect; won 1995 Pritzker Architecture Prize among many others  
4. Mary Leakey: self-taught archaeologist; found artifacts that redefined the study of human evolution  
5. Bill Gates: self-taught programmer; founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, richest man on earth  
6. 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.