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Although most people believe that formal schooling is required for scientific success, a college degree is not always necessary.____excellent example of a man who won fame as a scientist ____academic(学术的) training is Vincent J. Schaefer. His formal education ended ____ two years of high school when he had to go to work in an untrained job at General Electric. Because ____ his inventive mind and his skill as a model maker, he was soon allowed to try his own experiments in the company laboratory. His natural ____ (curious) made him wonder about clouds. He developed, after many tries, a method of making clouds rain ____they would not normally do so. This method, ____ (call) seeding, has been very ____ (help) to farmers, and ____made him win much fame.
Schaefer believes that for people____, most of all, are interested in the world and everything in it, a college degree is unnecessary.
栋梁之才。