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Ωστόσο, προς έξτρα παραδειγματισμό των φοιτητών (πανεπιστημίων) που πάσχουν από «κομπλεξισμό»:
Σημαντικοί αυτοδίδακτοι επιστήμονες και εφευρέτες
Engineers and inventors
• John Smeaton, who was the first civil engineer.
• James Watt, the mechanical engineer who improved the steam engine, was "largely self taught."
• Oliver Evans trained as a millwright, inventor of the high pressure steam engine (independently of Richard Trevithick and with a more practical engine). Evans developed and patented the first known automated materials handling system.
• Thomas Alva Edison
• The Wright Brothers, especially Wilbur Wright. Though both brothers never graduated high school, Wilbur had completed all the course requirements, but his family moved to Ohio in 1885 before his graduation. Both brothers were mechanically inclined, with Orville running his own printing press in his teens. They entered the bicycle business as a team in 1892, selling existing models and creating their own brand, the Van Cleve, named after a relative. Wilbur made the first inroads in seriously studying aeronautics and the development of the world's first successful airplane.
• John Harrison, a carpenter by education, built the first marine chronometers enabling navigators to determine a ship's longitudinal position.
• R. G. LeTourneau, prolific inventor of earthmoving machinery.
• Granville T. Woods, an inventor in electrical and mechanical engineering with more than 50 patents, went to school until he was ten years old. That all he ever had for his formal education. But he learned from the books and on the job. He began as a blacksmith’s apprentice and continued as a machinist, an electrician, a railroad fireman, a locomotive and steamship engineer. In his free time, he kept reading, especially on the subjects of electricity and mechanics. During the 1860s and 1870s, because he was black, he was not allowed to borrow books from the local libraries so he would ask white friends to borrow them for him. Everytime he saw a new piece of technology, he would ask questions about it. Years later, in a 1886 cross-examination for a patent dispute, he said that he was self-taught.
Scientists, historians, and educators
• Nathaniel Bowditch, a colonial period American mathematician who wrote the American Practical Navigator.
• Charles Darwin, an English naturalist. Darwin's research in Natural History established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. Apart from being at one time an apprentice doctor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, being taught taxidermy by John Edmonstone, being a member of the Plinian Society, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree at Christ College, Cambridge and attending one of Adam Sedgewick's geology courses, Charles Darwin appears to have been largely self-taught in his chosen fields of scientific study, Natural History and Biology.
• Philosopher Daniel Dennett has described himself an autodidact. While he holds a PhD in philosophy, he says he has been a "beneficiary of hundreds of hours of informal tutorials on all the fields that interest [him], from some of the world's leading scientists."
• Michael Faraday, the chemist and physicist. Although Faraday received little formal education and knew little of higher mathematics, such as calculus, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. Some historians of science refer to him as the best experimentalist in the history of science.
• Physicist and Judo expert Moshe Feldenkrais developed an autodidactic method of self-improvement based on his own experience with self-directed learning in physiology and neurology. He was motivated by his own crippling knee injury.
• Benjamin Franklin
• Buckminster Fuller, a self-proclaimed comprehensive anticipatory design scientist, was twice expelled from Harvard and, after a life-altering experience while on the edge of suicide, dedicated his life to working in the service of humanity and thinking for himself. In the process he created many new terms such as "ephemeralization", "dymaxion", and "Spaceship Earth".
• British electrical engineer, physicist, and mathematician Oliver Heaviside.
• "Darwin's Bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley, a 19th-century British scientist.
• Jane Jacobs wrote books about city planning, economics, and sociology with only a high school degree and training in journalism and sternography, plus courses at Columbia University's extension school.
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant, built the most powerful microscopes of his time and used them to make biological discoveries.
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a mathematical autodidact.
• Karl Marx, the German socialist philosopher, was self-taught in economics, during his study in London, at the British Library.
• The cognitive scientist Walter Pitts was an autodidact. He taught himself mathematical logic, psychology, and neuroscience. He was one of the scientists who laid the foundations of cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, and cybernetics.
• Mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan was largely self-taught in mathematics. Ramanujan is notable as an autodidact for having developed thousands of new mathematical theorems despite having no formal education in mathematics, contributing substantially to the analytical theory of numbers, elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
• Vincent J. Schaefer, who discovered the principle of cloud seeding, was schooled to 10th grade when asked by parents to help with family income. He continued his informal education by reading, participation in free lectures by scientists and exploring nature through year-round outdoor activity.
• Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and archeologist.
• The social philosopher Herbert Spencer, a 19th century British scientist.
• The natural historians Alfred Russel Wallace (co-discoverer of natural selection) and Henry Walter Bates both 19th-century British scientists.
• Gerda Alexander, Heinrich Jacoby, and a number of other 20th-century European innovators worked out methods of self-development that stressed intelligent sensitivity and awareness.
• Eliezer Yudkowsky, artificial intelligence researcher.
• Eric Hoffer
• William Kamkwamba, inventor
• George Green, mathematician and physicist
• Robert Franklin Stroud, ornithologist while imprisoned
• James Marcus Bach, software testing expert
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts)
