When Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930, he instantly became the most famous living astronomer in the world. He had his choice of academic and scientific positions, and could have done very well for himself on the strength of his discovery of Pluto.
What did he do next?
He went to college.
That's right: he had taught himself astronomy with books from the public library and by building telescopes in high school, but he had not had any academic training in astronomy and hadn't gone to college. So two years after he discovered Pluto, he became a freshman at the University of Kansas, where he signed up to take first-year astronomy. Here is more of Tombaugh's story.
Even the champions keep learning.