# People who made significant contributions to math/science yet received no education in those fields.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 30, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-made-significant-contributions-to-math-science-yet-received-no-education-in-those-fields/770113 "2016-10-30T14:24:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-made-significant-contributions-to-math-science-yet-received-no-education-in-those-fields/770113/41 "2016-11-06T22:47:47Z")

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> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> [Milton Humason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_L._Humason). I love this story… when the Mount Wilson Observatory was being built 100 years ago, Milton was a mule driver and was hired to haul materials and equipment up the mountain. He hung around the observatory after it was completed and eventually became an astronomer.

Just spent the night at Mt wilson with an astronomy group looking through the 60" scope, they still tell his story up there.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-made-significant-contributions-to-math-science-yet-received-no-education-in-those-fields/770113/42 "2016-11-07T20:58:43Z")

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The unknown human who came up with the idea of money.

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