doctorate
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- n one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university
- Father Chaman has a doctorate in engineering, and won a Presidential award for his work in getting water to African villages.
- With a doctorate in physics from the University of Western Ontario, she has been a teacher, an ecologist, an activist, a feminist and an organic farmer.
- Piaget was launched on a path that would lead to his doctorate in zoology and a lifelong conviction that the way to understand anything is to understand how it evolves.