PhD
abbreviation or noun
variants
or Ph.D.
plural PhDs or Ph.D.s
: the academic degree, title, or rank of doctor of philosophy
He was awarded a PhD in economics.
Jane Smith, Ph.D.
also
: a person who has earned the academic degree of doctor of philosophy
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Watson School of Biological Sciences graduated its first PhDs (14 of them) in June 2004 … —
Horace Freeland Judson
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Becca Levy, PhD, is a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and professor of psychology at Yale University.
—Jann E. Freed, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Lorazepam interacts with an area in the brain called the GABAA channel, which slows activity in the brain and helps people relax, Jamie Alan, PhD, an associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University, tells SELF.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 3 Mar. 2025
Jacob Bruggeman is a PhD candidate in history at Johns Hopkins and a graduate fellow at the SNF Agora Institute.
—Jacob Bruggeman & Casey Eilbert / Made By History, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
The study was conducted at Northwestern University in Illinois, by a team led by Prof. Vinayak Dravid and PhD student Benjamin Shindel.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 1 Mar. 2025
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Jann E. Freed, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Lorazepam interacts with an area in the brain called the GABAA channel, which slows activity in the brain and helps people relax, Jamie Alan, PhD, an associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University, tells SELF.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 3 Mar. 2025
Jacob Bruggeman is a PhD candidate in history at Johns Hopkins and a graduate fellow at the SNF Agora Institute.
—Jacob Bruggeman & Casey Eilbert / Made By History, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
The study was conducted at Northwestern University in Illinois, by a team led by Prof. Vinayak Dravid and PhD student Benjamin Shindel.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 1 Mar. 2025
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