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> Many famous scientists, even some distinguished professors, don’t have a PhD Examples? I'm really not aware of anyone, so I'm curious.
by Aeolos 5y ago
> Many famous scientists, even some distinguished professors, don’t have a PhD
Examples? I'm really not aware of anyone, so I'm curious.
- chrisseaton 5y agoAre you in tech? Then an obvious example is Simon Peyton Jones. Full professor, Fellow of the Royal Society, ACM Fellow, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. No doctoral degree of any kind. Really think he can't claim to be a scientist?
- Aeolos 5y agoScientist yes, in the same way that anyone who follows the scientific method can be a scientist. Professor however, no, except as a honorary title. I know exactly zero tenured professors who do not have a PhD.