kevindalby

Originally published on   scienceworldreport.com Many young aspiring scientists question if they need a Ph.D. to conduct research. Even though the conventional belief is that you need to be a doctor to succeed, a few scientists have historically managed to become famous without a doctorate. Here,  Kevin Dalby - a professor of chemical biology and medicinal chemistry at The University of Texas in Austin , answers whether you need a Ph.D. to become a researcher and features a few outliers - scientists who never got their Ph.D. but became successful and even famous. One way to think about obtaining a Ph.D. is to envision that your career as a scientist is a 12,000-foot mountain, and you are standing at the base. What you want to achieve, the discoveries you want to make, and the papers you would like to publish are all at, or near, the top of the mountain. There is a chair lift running to a point near the top of the mountain, and a doctorate is your lift ticket. It will take seve...