Juris Hartmanis was Turing award winner laying out foundations for complexity theory. His life in his own words: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184690-a

Juris Hartmanis was Turing award winner laying out foundations for complexity theory. His life in his own words: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184690-an-interview-with-juris-hartmanis/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184690-an-interview-wi... "I also discovered, during my education and early research experience, that you do not have to know that much to do research. With a good background education, one can very quickly absorb the necessary specialized knowledge for a specific research area. I think what Caltech really taught me was to be independent, and to try to go to the essence of a problem."