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It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist: Great Amateurs of Science Format:Hardcover Extraordinary sample essaysDid you know. . . . . . that the woman who discovered the largest and most complete T. rex fossil on record was a high school dropout who became one of the world's greatest fossil hunters? . . . that the great British scientist Michael Faraday was the son of a blacksmith and had very little formal education? . . . that Gregor Mendel had time to study inherited traits in garden peas because he failed the test to qualify as a high school science