Although most people believe that formal schooling is required for scientific success, a college
degree is not always necessary. An excellent example of a man who won fame as a scientist without
academic training is Vincent J. Schaefer. His formal education ended after two years of high school
when he had to go to work in an untrained job at General Electric. Because of 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 curiosity made him wonder about clouds. He developed, after many tries, a
method of making clouds rain when they would not normally do so. This method, called seeding,
has been very helpful to farmers, and it won him much fame. In 1961 he became director and
leading professor of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center of the University of New York. In
1981, this professor, who had never gone to college, published a highly respected book, A Field
Guide to the Atmosphere. Schaefer approves of college education; but he believes that, for people
who can work on their own, who learn by doing, who read books, who make friends with
worthwhile people, and who, most of all, are interested in the world and everything in it, a college
degree is unnecessary 【題組】45. Which of the following statements is true about Vincent J. Schaefer?
(A) He was a well-educated scholar.
(B) He liked to try and experiment with new things.
(C) He owned a big farm in the state of New York.
(D) He succeeded in making clouds rain without much efforts.
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