Word: self-taught
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...decay was so pathetic and so gaudy that it is difficult now even for those with a good grip on middle age to remember that once he was a hero. A strange hero, certainly, but a real one; a test pilot of impressive courage and a gifted, self-taught aircraft designer at a time when aviation was the century's brightest adventure. In 1935 he set the world landplane speed record (352 m.p.h.) in an aircraft of his own design. Small boys wanted to be Howard Hughes, never mind the money and never mind Jane Russell...
Since using how to learn computers at age 13 in a program at the University of Flordia, Halem said that most of his knowledge has been self-taught, partially because "Harvard's computer classes are not very interesting...
...British. This reflected the insular judgment of the founding editor, a nonmusician named George Grove, one of those versatile achievers of whom the Victorian Age was justly proud. Sir George, a civil engineer, built lighthouses in Jamaica and Bermuda and worked on the British railway system. He was a self-taught Bible and music scholar who in 1852 became secretary of the Crystal Palace, a concert and exhibition hall. He wrote program notes and served as a founder and director of the Royal College of Music...
...irony is that Borg's unusual playing style was once a coach's nightmare, a self-taught batch of skills rarely seen singly, much less in combination. The two-handed backhand seems part of the tennis landscape now that Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert and Tracy Austin have made it respectable. But when Borg first came to public notice, no one had used the shot since Australian Vivian McGrath in the 1930s. Needless to say, Borg's method was considered idiosyncratic, a stylistic dead end. For that matter, topspin was viewed as the last refuge of Bobby Riggs trying...
...self-taught man, Malin is well-read and at one time expected to study at Oxford. His apartment reveals his nature: over 2000 neatly arranged books line the walls, while organized files contain his many manuscripts...