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| David Robert Jones, the greatest musician of his time, whose career impacted the music industry like no other during the 20th century was entirely self-taught. He had no academic background in music. |
This article is about exceptionally talented and skilled genius minds whose efforts helped in positively affecting the society they existed in at the time, while equipped with little or no formal education. Within the list are the likes of Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday etc ,people who altered the course of humanity by their path-breaking inventions and innovative ideas,
outperforming their educated counterparts and thus proving that being educated is not a prerequisite to impacting the world and positively affecting civilisation, and leaving inspiring examples for everyone.
10. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
The legendary Dutch scientist was one of the first microscopists and microbiologists. His efforts in and contributions to the field of microbiology earned him the name "the father of modern biology"
As with other people on this list he had no formal training in both fields. He is best remembered for his pioneering work in both fields and helping to establish microbiology as a scientific discipline. His research on lower animals refuted the doctrine of spontaneous generation and helped lay the foundations for the sciences bacteriology and protozoology.
9. David Robert Jones
It may be rightly said that he is the greatest musical minds of the 20th century. His 54-year career greatly impacted the music industry in a way that few have done.
His proficiency in music was largely a result of pure talent and natural skill, as he had no formal musical training. At a young age, he had taught himself various musical instruments. His outstanding and high profile career was marked by reinvention and visual representation. His music and stagecraft heavily influenced and impacted popular music.
8. Gregor Mendel
He is deservedly called the father of modern genetics. His pioneering work in the field of genetics laid the foundation for modern genetics and is also essential to other various academic fields.
Mendel was inspired by his research by the work of Franz Unger. He carried out 8-year research using pea plants. The results of the research produced Mendel's laws of inheritance.
7. Andre Ampere
He was a French physicist who was largely responsible for the founding and naming of the science of electrodynamics. As a child, he received no formal education, following his father's insistence on self- education. His father Jean Jacques Ampere, believed his children should pursue an education direct from nature. Ampere grew to become one of the greatest physicists of his generation, making groundbreaking contributions to the field and producing numerous invaluable tech. and sci. inventions.
6. Srinivasa Ramanujan
He is a mathematician who is well known for his unmatched mathematical genius, and astounding mathematical discoveries that his even his educated counterparts respected and commended.
He played important roles in the advancement of various mathematical fields, including mathematical analysis, number theory infinite series and a host of others also helping to provide solutions to problems deemed unsolvable during his time. There is no doubt the heights he would have climbed if he had the advantage of formal mathematical training that he likes heard. He remains India's greatest mathematician and one of the greatest the world has ever seen.
5. Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace remains one of the most well-known females in the history of computer technology, courtesy of her work on calculating machines, especially the Charles Babbage proposed mechanical general all-purpose computer the analytical engine.
She was the first to recognize that Charles Babbage machine had an application that reached beyond pure calculations and wrote the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such machines which earned her a place among the first computer programmers.
4. The Wright Brothers
Orville Wright was born on August 19th, 1871, and his brother Wilbur Wright on April 16th, 1867, the two of seven children to American parents.
The brothers began early aeronautical research. Their interest in aviation may be linked to their father's procurement of a toy helicopter for them during their childhood years. They conducted intense and extensive research into aeronautics, going from one experiment to the other. Their hardworking through the years bore fruit when on the morning of December 17, 1903, they made the first successful flight, in 12 seconds, the beginning of an industry that was to change the course of humanity. Today they are remembered as pioneers of the aviation industry, achieving this feat without any academic background whatsoever in the field.
3. Henry Ford
He was one of the greatest industrialists and capitalists of his generation, whose efforts helped revolutionalize the automobile industry.
He attended Detroit Business Institute as well as Goldsmith Bryant and Stratton College, in his later life though he got no degree from both colleges. He transformed the automobile industry by some of the innovative ideas he introduced and created including giving the world the first affordable automobile (his model T), and also his timely introduction of the moving Assembly Line.
2. Thomas Edison
Most who know Thomas Edison remember him for his redesigning of the incandescent electric bulb, one of the numerous inventions he developed. As a child, he largely homeschooled by his mother after he was deemed too dumb to receive a formal education. He settled as an inventor in New York after moving from job to job as a young man. His first invention was the stock ticker, which the Gold and stock photography company bought from him for $40,000. His later inventions include a more viable version of the incandescent electric light bulb, the phonograph, the telegraph, and numerous others, all inventions that greatly impacted and transformed society at the time.
1. Michael Faraday
This British physicist and chemist are best known for his invention of the electromagnetic motor and his discovery of electromagnetic induction and also the law of electrolysis.
According to records he had no formal education being largely self-educated. He read widely and voraciously putting into practical use the suggestions and principles he garnered from the books he read. His career as a scientist gave the world many important scientific discoveries, which were made mostly by his study and research on electromagnetism. Most of his discoveries are indispensably essential to a great number of branches in the sciences.
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