But Robbins is self-taught, and his devotion to his studies borders on the monastic.
Gilder skeptics--and there remain many--argued that Gilder's self-taught methods produced more fiction than science.
Now, a self-taught inventor is once again eyeing the vast shale deposits of the Rocky Mountains.
Harold Brown, a 31-year-old self-taught engineer, asked if he could conduct experiments at Edison's lab.
He doesn't regret not getting a college degree and takes pride in being self-taught.
Ceija Stojka, a Roma (Gypsy) Holocaust survivor, writer and self-taught artist, has died aged 79.
He believes that he is the only self-taught, hand-carver of emu eggs in the world.
She is a self-taught vegetarian cook, practices yoga, and is passionate about physical movement, creativity, and self-care.
Passionate and self-taught, he left behind a career in law to follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker.
But few shorts have been as vocal, or as prescient, as the Howard University graduate and self-taught stock-picker.
He is a self-taught computer hacker, amateur astronomer and reportedly enjoys writing code.
In addition to his genetics wizardry, he says his near-fluent English is self-taught.
For instance, he stocked Sears with landscapes by self-taught painter Streeter Blair.
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Even at this early stage, Aznavour - who is completely self-taught on the piano - was writing and composing songs.
As a young chef, self-taught, he had devoured cookery books of every kind: medieval, Japanese, Italian, all the French masters.
Caravaggio's artistic style, self-taught and hugely inventive, is instantly recognisable stark, vivid and naturalistic, with emphasis on light and shadow, or chiaroscuro.
Self-taught Python and Django developer Esther Nam from Santa Monica, California provides an introduction to the practice of exception handling.
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He has a great back story as a self-taught golfer who never had a lesson, giving hackers around the country hope.
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Christopher Doyle is a self-taught Sydney-sider who was born in 1952 but who has spent most of his life in Hong Kong.
Palmer was a 19th century English painter, largely self-taught, whose early landscapes were touched with a visionary quality influenced by William Blake.
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Mostly self-taught, he specialized in panoramic impressionist views of California's Sierra Mountains.
Many players are self-taught because they often don't get the coaching and teaching that used to be given in elementary and high schools.
Mr. Becker was the son, having learned the craft from his father, a mostly self-taught craftsman who made his first violin in 1901.
Another chef is Fumie Ito, a self-taught chef and mother of three who hopes to make her work on Gobble a full-time business.
He began collecting material on a tape recorder when he was 20, starting with the Seeger family's maid, Elizabeth Cotten, a self-taught guitarist.
Tanned, 64 years old and gregarious, the self-taught engineer has made a fortune in four decades of inventing electronic gadgets outside the corporate tent.
In France, Patrick Roger offers a bespoke service, and even Jacques Genin, the self-taught genius of French chocolate, is open to customizing his creations.
He had some formal education, including a course in literature at New York University, but like many in his circle, he was mostly self-taught.
When he was a penniless San Francisco musician, Mark Bittner, the hero of this documentary, became a self-taught parrot authority and bonded with the species.
Zhang is a self-taught engineer, not an architect, and it shows.
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