Less extreme, but Simon Peyton Jones never did a PhD. Yet he eventually became a Lecturer and a Professor at UCL and Glasgow, respectively: https://en.wikipedi

Less extreme, but Simon Peyton Jones never did a PhD. Yet he eventually became a Lecturer and a Professor at UCL and Glasgow, respectively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones#Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones#Education