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27 unusual facts about Doctor of Philosophy


Adam Scholefield

He graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in electrical engineering and as of 2012 is studying for a Ph.D in image processing.

Adolf Wilbrandt

After taking the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, he joined the staff of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich.

Anthropologist

However, a more generally accepted interpretation in academia is that an anthropologist is one who has attained a Ph.D.

Bert Main

He served in the Australian Imperial Force and the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, but later returned to zoology, qualifying as a Doctor of Philosophy in 1956, and becoming a Professof of Zoology in 1967.

Bobby Newman

Bobby Newman, PhD is an author, psychologist, and a board certified behavior analyst who works with children on the Autism spectrum worldwide.

Daniel Goldin presidency of Boston University

Despite Westling's lack of a Ph.D., he was Silber’s recommendation to the Trustees for the job.

Edward Lee Greene

Edward Lee Greene, Ph.D., (August 10, 1843 – November 10, 1915) was an American botanist known for his numerous publications including the two-part Landmarks of Botanical History and the naming or redescribing of over 4,400 species of plants in the American West.

English honorifics

Dr: (Doctor) for a person who has obtained any doctoral-level academic degree, such as the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.), or Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), but most often refers to a degree-holder in a medically related field, specifically a Physician or Surgeon (a.k.a. a medical 'doctor').

James Westfall Thompson

Born to a Dutch reform minister's family in Pella, Iowa, Thompson received an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1892 and a PhD in history from the newly founded University of Chicago in 1895.

Jamie Goode

Jamie Goode is a British author with a PhD in plant biology, and a wine columnist of The Sunday Express.

Jørgen Brunchorst

Brunchorst specialised in botany at university, and after finishing his Ph.D. in Germany, he became director of Bergen Museum.

Kim Dovey

He received degrees from Curtin University and the University of Melbourne in Australia and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Leadership studies

As such, at the doctoral level leadership related degree programs primarily include: Ph.D., Ed.D., and executive doctoral degrees (depending on the situation of the program within the university).

Lund v. Commonwealth

While working on his Ph.D. research in the 1970s, Lund utilized the resources of Virginia Tech's computer lab.

LUSerNet

bramp, who never technically broke any of the University's rules of the time, remains at Lancaster University, and is currently working as a research associate after successfully completing a Ph.D.

Martin Wiberg

Martin Wiberg (September 4, 1826 - December 29, 1905) was born in Viby, Scania, Sweden, enrolled at Lund University in 1845 and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1850.

Mary Wilhelmine Williams

Williams received her Ph.D. in 1914 and became an instructor in History at Stanford University.

Menachem Lewin

After his release from British prison, Lewin continued his university studies, receiving an MSc in chemistry in 1945 and a PhD in 1947.

Mikhail Ostrogradsky

When 1820 Osipovsky was suspended on religious grounds, Ostrogradsky refused to be examined and he never received his Doctor's degree.

Neuromyelitis optica

In 1894, Eugène Devic and his PhD student Fernand Gault described 16 patients who had lost vision in one or both eyes and within weeks developed severe spastic weakness of the limbs, loss of sensation and often bladder control.

Pedagogy

D., Doctor of Pedagogy, is awarded honorarily by some U.S. universities to distinguished teachers (in the U.S. and U.K., earned degrees within the instructive field are classified as an Ed. D., Doctor of Education or a Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy).

Peter Venkman

Peter Venkman, Ph.D. is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters franchise.

Psilocybe aztecorum

bonneti is named after Dr. Federico Bonet (died 1980), emeritus professor of the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, who assisted Guzmán with his doctoral studies.

Rsync

Tridgell discusses the design, implementation and performance of rsync in chapters 3 through 5 of his Australian National University Ph.D. thesis.

The Lizardman

The Lizardman was born in Fort Campbell, KY, and was a Ph.D. candidate at the University at Albany before beginning his transformation.

Vivien Kellems

She went on to earn a masters degree in economics, and worked towards a PhD at Columbia University and the University of Edinburgh.

Xothic legend cycle

The story is narrated by Henry Stephenson Blaine, Ph.D. and curator of the Manuscripts Collection of the Sanbourne Institute.


Ad Bax

He studied at Delft University of Technology where he got his engineer's degree in 1978, and Ph.D. degree in applied physics in 1981, after spending considerable time working with Ray Freeman at Oxford University.

Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies

Degrees awarded by the Department of Biblical Studies are Master of Arts in Religion (MA-R) with emphases in Biblical Studies, Biblical Languages, Old Testament and New Testament; Master of Theology (MTh) with emphases in Old Testament and New Testament; and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Old Testament and New Testament.

Ashraf Choudhary

He continued his studies abroad, gaining a master's degree in agricultural engineering at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England and a PhD in agricultural engineering at Massey University, New Zealand.

Bayar Dovdoi

He obtained PhD degree in the theme of “Stone sculptures of Eastern Mongolia”, and ScD degree in the theme of “Human Statues in Mongolian territory”.

Bishop of Sherborne

The current Bishop of Sherborne is the Right Reverend Dr Graham Kings, PhD, MA(Oxon), DipTh, who was consecrated in a special service at Westminster Abbey on 24 June 2009 by the Most Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Brian Ellard

Brian Joseph Ellard, M.A., Ph.D., (born January 15, 1940) is a Canadian educator, musicologist, arranger, and conductor.

Bryony Shaw

She attended Cheney Upper School on Cheney Lane near Headington in Oxford gaining A levels in Art, Maths and Biology, where her father had been teaching Business Studies for PhD at Oxford Brookes University.

Chien Wei-zang

He obtained a Ph.D. degree at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. J.L. Synge in 1942, and then worked as a research associate in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Caltech.

David Satcher

David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. FAAFP, FACPM, FACP (born March 2, 1941) is an American physician, and public health administrator.

Erich Hückel

On receiving his doctorate, he became an assistant at Göttingen, but soon became an assistant to Peter Debye at Zürich.

Fernando Rosas

In 1990 he got his Ph.D. and is today the president of the Instituto de História Contemporânea (Portugal's contemporary history institute), an historical consultant for the Mário Soares Foundation and the editor of História magazine.

G. Warren Nutter

After serving in U.S. Army Intelligence after the fall of Nazi Germany, he returned to finish his studies at the University of Chicago where he earned his B.A. (1946), M.A. (1948), and Ph.D. (1949) in economics, which he studied with Milton Friedman and Frank Knight.

Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith

Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith D.Phil, FRSC, FRGS, FAINA (22 April 1923 – 21 July 2012) was an English-born geologist and glaciologist, recognized as a pioneering researcher of Northern Canada.

Graham Richards

Professor William Graham Richards C.B.E., M.A., D.Phil, D.Sc, C.Chem, FRSC was born 1 October 1939 in Hoylake, Cheshire and was Head of Chemistry (1997-2006) at the University of Oxford.

Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.

He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in biology from Columbia University in 1894, with his thesis on the classification of Lepidoptera, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1895, with his dissertation on airborne bacteria in New York City.

Henry Hu

He earned a Doctor of Philosophy and a Diploma of High Studies in International Law and International Affairs from the University of Paris.

Ignace Gelb

Born in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary (now Poland), he earned his PhD from the University of Rome in 1929, then went to the University of Chicago where he was a professor of Assyriology until his death.

Iqbal Masood Nadvi

He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Shariah (law), with specialization in jurisprudence (Fiqh) and taught Islamic Shariah and Jurisprudence at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, for six years and dealt with various subjects such as principles of jurisprudence (Usool Al-Fiqh), Islamic Culture, Islamic Political Thought, Islamic movements and the Fiqh of Organization.

He obtained his Ph.D. from the same university in 1991 after which he moved to the teaching position as a professor in Riyadh at King Saud University

James M. McPherson

Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 1958 (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1963.

John Ruggie

Ruggie has a BA in politics and history from McMaster University in Canada; a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley; a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from McMaster; and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from University of Waterloo.

Kenneth F. Cramer

At the time of his death Cramer had completed doctoral studies at the University of Munich and had submitted his dissertation.

Kenneth L. Barker

Barker earned his B.A. from Northwestern College, his Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary (1960), and his Ph.D. from the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (1969).

Leonard Hayflick

Leonard Hayflick (born May 20, 1928), Ph.D., is Professor of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and was Professor of Medical Microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Malik Peiris

Joseph Malik Sriyal Peiris, PhD, has been the scientific director of the HKU-Pasteur Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong.

Maurice Zundel

Zundel completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1927 at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum with a dissertation directed by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange entitled L'Influence du nominalisme sur la pensée chrétienne.

Nagoya Gakuin University

With a curriculum focusing on Business and Economics, as well as Foreign Studies and Human Health, Nagoya Gakuin University awards degrees at the bachelor's, masters, and Doctor of Philosophy levels.

Nathan Zach

From 1968 to 1979 he lived in England and completed his PhD at the University of Essex.

Neil L. Rudenstine

He studied the humanities at Princeton University (A.B. 1956) and participated in Army R.O.T.C. After serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer he attended New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard for thesis titled Sir Philip Sidney: The Styles of Love.

Otto C. Glaser

He stayed there to do graduate work, and in 1904 received the degree of D.Ph. His doctoral thesis was entitled Über den kannibalismus bei Fasciolaria tulipa (var. distans) und deren larvale excretionsorgane.

RADlab Software

Ivan Lux, Ph. D.Laszlo Koblinger, Ph, Monte Carlo Transport Methods: Neutron and Photon Calculation,1991, CRC Press Inc.

Richard Finn

Returning to Corpus, he studied for a DPhil, producing a thesis entitled The Christian promotion and practice of almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: (313-450), which was supervised by Averil Cameron and Peter Garnsey.

Simon Hornblower

Born in 1949, he was educated at Eton College, where he was a scholar, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in 1969, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1971 (BA and hence subsequently MA) and a DPhil in 1978 with a thesis entitled Maussollos of Karia.

Stuart Monro

Monro graduated in Geology from Aberdeen University in 1970 and then received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh while embarking upon a lengthy career with the British Geological Survey, making a number of distinguished contributions to the understanding of the geology of central Scotland and the application of geology to environmental issues.

Victor Joseph Reed

After earning his Ph.D. from Leuven in 1939, he declined a teaching position at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to return to Oklahoma.