The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

) is reserved for those who can prove a particular distinction in the field, usually through a body of published work or the submission of a dissertation.

Sapir initially wrote to Benedict to commend her for her dissertation on The Guardian Spirit, but soon realized that Benedict had published poetry pseudonymously.

In 1766 he published a doctoral dissertation with the Latin title De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum ( On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body ), which discussed the influence of the Moon and the planets on the human body and on disease.

The proof of Gödel's completeness theorem given by Kurt Gödel in his doctoral dissertation of 1929 ( and a rewritten version of the dissertation, published as an article in 1930 ) is not easy to read today ; it uses concepts and formalism that are outdated and terminology that is often obscure.

In 1868, he visited sites in the Greek world, published Ithaka, der Peloponnesus und Troja in which he asserted that Hissarlik was the site of Troy, and submitted a dissertation in Ancient Greek proposing the same thesis to the University of Rostock.

Both were published as part of his dissertation in 1902.

The first peer-reviewed article was published some years later by Stephen LaBerge at Stanford University, who had independently developed a similar technique as part of his doctoral dissertation.

The first was his dissertation, published in expanded form in 1892 as Truth and Knowledge.

Banach's dissertation, completed in 1920 and published in 1922, formally axiomatized the concept of a complete normed vector space and laid the foundations for the area of functional analysis.

He was told that he could submit one of his published papers to the Yale faculty as a dissertation, but insisted on doing a new research project instead.

In 1947, Samuelson published Foundations of Economic Analysis, based on his doctoral dissertation.

In 1892, he published The Division of Labour in Society, his doctoral dissertation and fundamental statement of the nature of human society and its development.

In his doctoral dissertation published the same year, Hillig stated that principal components analysis of phenotypic ( morphological ) traits failed to differentiate the putative species, but that canonical variates analysis resulted in a high degree of discrimination of the putative species and infraspecific taxa.

Gilbreth completed a dissertation and attempted to obtain a doctorate from the University of California in 1911, but was not awarded the degree due to noncompliance with residency requirements for doctoral candidates ; this dissertation was later published as The Psychology of Management.

His Master's dissertation, practically the first text in Russian mathematical literature on Cauchy method of residues, was published in 1868.

His theory was published originally in his dissertation Intégrale, longueur, aire (" Integral, length, area ") at the University of Nancy during 1902.

Knowing that alum cannot be obtained in crystals without the addition of potash, he began to suspect that this alkali constituted an essential ingredient in the salt, and in 1797 he published a dissertation demonstrating that alum is a double salt, composed of sulfuric acid, alumina, and potash.

Harvard awarded Wiener a Ph. D. in 1912, when he was merely 17 years old, for a dissertation on mathematical logic, supervised by Karl Schmidt, the essential results of which were published as Wiener ( 1914 ).

He studied philosophy and sociology in 1899 – 1900 with Georg Simmel in Berlin, spent a semester in Straßburg ( 1900 ), and took his PhD in Philosophy in 1903 at Heidelberg under Wilhelm Windelband ( 1848 – 1915 ) and Alfred Hettner ( 1859 – 1941 ) with a dissertation titled Masse und Publikum.

Small's doctoral dissertation, published as Flora of the Southeastern United States in 1903, and revised in 1913 and 1933, remains the best floristic reference for much of the South.

degree in 1897 was on " The Administration of Justice in Kentucky ," and her Ph. D. in Political Science came in 1903 with her dissertation, " Legal Tender ; A Study in English and American Monetary History.

Boerhaave was critical of his Dutch contemporary, Baruch Spinoza, attacking him in his dissertation in 1689.

The same year he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree for his dissertation entitled " The aetiology of congenital intestinal atresia ".

It was inspired by ALOHAnet, which Robert Metcalfe had studied as part of his PhD dissertation.

It was first introduced in his dissertation ( and later appeared in abbreviated, more legible form in a journal ).

His dissertation was titled Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae.

His dissertation was The Concept of Property in Puritan New England, 1630 – 1720.

Following this short stint in the military, Ebbinghaus finished his dissertation on Eduard von Hartmann ’ s Philosphie des Unbewussten ( Philosophy of the Unconscious ), and received his doctorate on August 16, 1873, when he was 23 years old.

Administrative Behavior from 1947 was based on Simon ’ s doctoral dissertation.

His unpublished and now lost dissertation was titled " The Psychology of Kant.

The subject of his doctoral dissertation was the influence of Islam on a Hausa group that, unlike most others, had not converted to it.

It was mainly as a schoolmaster in Weimar that he wrote his papers on the distribution of the parts, on the masks and dresses, and on the machinery of the ancient stage, as well as a dissertation on the masks of the Furies in 1801.

His doctoral dissertation in Germanic historical linguistics was supervised by Wood, and he graduated in 1909.

Bloomfield's earliest work was in historical Germanic studies, beginning with his dissertation, and continuing with a number of papers on Indo-European and Germanic phonology and morphology.

Bloomfield's work in Indo-European beyond his dissertation was limited to an article on palatal consonants in Sanskrit and one article on the Sanskrit grammatical tradition associated with Pāṇini, in addition to a number of book reviews.

He picked up a masters degree from Yale for giving an oral dissertation to the Yale graduating class, and later that year opened a small, private school in western Connecticut that was an instant success, though he quickly closed it and left town — likely due to a failed romance.

Trudeau was interested in Marxist ideas in the 1940s and his Harvard dissertation was on the topic of Communism and Christianity.

Likewise, Banach's fixed point theorem, based on earlier methods developed by Charles Émile Picard, was included in his dissertation, and was later extended by his students ( for example in the Banach – Schauder theorem ) and other mathematicians ( in particular Bouwer and Poincaré and Birkhoff ).

Hilbert obtained his doctorate in 1885, with a dissertation, written under Ferdinand von Lindemann, titled Über invariante Eigenschaften spezieller binärer Formen, insbesondere der Kugelfunktionen (" On the invariant properties of special binary forms, in particular the spherical harmonic functions ").

In 1975 Belarusian scientist Victor Adamenko wrote a dissertation titled Research of the structure of High-frequency electric discharge ( Kirlain effect ) images.

Topelius became a student at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland in 1833, received his master's degree degree in 1840, the Licentiate degree in 1844 and was made a doctor of philosophy in 1847, having defended a dissertation titled De modo matrimonia jungendi apud fennos quondam vigente (" About the custom of marriage among the ancient Finns ").

Eight years after John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence, Bobrow's dissertation ( titled Natural Language Input for a Computer Problem Solving System ) showed how a computer can understand simple natural language input to solve algebra word problems.

Haraway then did a triple major in zoology, philosophy and literature at the Colorado College She completed her Ph. D. in biology at Yale in 1970 writing a dissertation about the use of metaphor in shaping experiments in experimental biology titled Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.

His PhD dissertation was titled " Automatic Allocation of Digital Computer Storage Resources for Time-sharing ".

His doctoral dissertation was titled " On Integral Equations, Their Solution by Iteration and Analytic Continuation ".

Joseph Doob supervised his dissertation, titled Invariants of Certain Stochastic Transformations: The Mathematical Theory of Gambling Systems.

Shermer earned his Ph. D. at Claremont Graduate University in history of science in 1991 ( with his dissertation titled " Heretic-Scientist: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Evolution of Man: A Study on the Nature of Historical Change ").

During his doctorate at Georg August University of Göttingen he was advised by Julius Baumann, and his dissertation was titled Jakob Friedrich Fries und seine jüngsten Kritiker.

Fenris State University professor Dr. Barry Mehler cited for example a quote from a 1969 dissertation by Sheldon Morris Neuringer titled American Jewry and United States immigration policy, 1881-1953 where MacDonald surmised that noted that when Neuringer noted Jewish opposition in 1921 and 1924 to the anti-immigration legislation at the time was due more to it having the “ taint of discrimination and anti-Semitism ” as opposed to how it would limit Jewish immigration, MacDonald wrote, “… Jewish opposition to the 1921 and 1924 legislation was motivated less by a desire for higher levels of Jewish immigration than by opposition to the implicit theory that America should be dominated by individuals with northern and western European ancestry .” “ It seems to me Mr. MacDonald is misrepresenting Mr. Neuringer in this case and I posted my query hoping that a historian familiar with the literature might have a judgment on MacDonald's use of the historical data ,” Mehler wrote, citing other examples.

His doctoral dissertation was titled Lengths of Cycle Times in Random Neural Networks.

In 1997, Rijmen finished his doctoral dissertation titled Cryptanalysis and design of iterated block ciphers.

In 1913, Skolem passed the state examinations with distinction, and completed a dissertation titled Investigations on the Algebra of Logic.

On September 30, 1892, Molien defended his dissertation, also titled " Über Systeme höherer komplexer Zahlen ".

His dissertation at Harvard in 1960 was titled " Utopie und Roman ; Untersuchungen zur Form des deutschen utopischen Romans im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert.

His Ph. D. dissertation, titled Contributions to the Axiomatic Foundations of Set Theory, contained the first proof that all possible axiomatizations of the standard axiomatic set theory ZFC must contain infinitely many axioms.

His dissertation was titled On the theory of automorphic functions ().

Perlman received a master's degree in economics and a PhD at the University of Belgrade's Law School ; his dissertation was titled " Conditions for the Development of a Backward Region ," which created an outrage among some members of the faculty.

He entered the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968, and continued his studies at Princeton University where he received Ph. D. degree in 1973 for his doctoral dissertation titled Codimension-Two Surgery, written under the supervision of William Browder.

After attending the gymnasium at Oels ( Oleśnica ), he studied philology at the universities of Breslau ( Wrocław ) and Berlin, and in 1838 received his degree with a dissertation titled Über die Anfänge der dramatische Poesie bei den Germanen.