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 ".

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.

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.

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.

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His unpublished and now lost dissertation was titled " The Psychology of Kant.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

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.

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.

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

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 ).

In the same year he obtained a doctorate in medicine ( MD ) from the same university for a dissertation entitled " The treatment of tuberculous meningitis ".

He earned his law doctorate in 1889 by writing a dissertation on legal history entitled ' Development of the Principle of Joint Liability and the Separate Fund in the Public Trading Company out of Household and Trade Communities in Italian Cities.

In 2011 Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, a sociology graduate student at Western Michigan University, received her PhD for a dissertation entitled “ All I Am: Defining Music as an Emotional Catalyst through a Sociological Study of Emotions, Gender and Culture ".

William Cuddihy, Ph. D. in his dissertation entitled The Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning, claims there existed a " colonial epidemic of general searches.

His dissertation, entitled, " Solutions of the Mathieu equation of period 4 pi and certain related functions ", was beyond the comprehension of the chemistry and physics faculty, and only when some members of the mathematics department, including the chairman, insisted that the work was good enough that they would grant the doctorate if the chemistry department would not, was he granted a Ph. D. in chemistry in 1935.

For his doctoral research, he wrote a dissertation entitled, " An Integration of the Visual Media Via ' Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids ' Into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning ".

degree with a dissertation entitled Recherches sur la force du coeur aortique.

The dissertation was entitled " The Cornell Evolution Project.

She furthered her education with a Master of Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD in 19th century British literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison ( her dissertation was entitled " Matthew Arnold's Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold's Poetry ").

Advised by John Wheeler, his 1949 Princeton doctoral dissertation was entitled The Moderation and Absorption of Negative Pions in Hydrogen.

Two years later, he published his dissertation, entitled " Om grafitens och chondroditens kristallformer " ( On the crystal forms of the graphite and chondrodite ).

He received his Ph. D. from the University of Utah College of Engineering in 1971, working with Dave Evans and Ivan Sutherland, for a dissertation entitled Computer Display of Curved Surfaces.

He received his doctorate in Theology in 1908, with the dissertation entitled Faith in the Resurrection of Christ as the Foundation of the Dogmas of the Apostolic Church.

All questions connected with the play have been elaborately discussed by Dr. W. Lflhr in a dissertation entitled Die drei cambridger Spiele vom Parnass ( Kiel, 1900 ).

Garland E. Bayliss, a native Arkansan and retired historian at Texas A & M University in College Station, wrote a dissertation in 1972 through the University of Texas at Austin entitled Public Affairs in Arkansas, 1874-1896, which includes a study of the Agricultural Wheel.

D. dissertation entitled Marks of a Readable Style, which included a readability formula for predicting the difficulty of adult reading material.

He completed his Ph. D., with a dissertation entitled Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces, at the University of Cambridge ( Trinity College ) in 1990, under the supervision of Béla Bollobás.

He was awarded his first Ph. D. in 1976 from United States International University ( now known as Alliant International University ) for a 170-page dissertation entitled Afro-American Nationalism: Social Strategy and Struggle for Community.

Later in his career, in 1994, he was awarded a second Ph. D., in social ethics, from the University of Southern California ( USC ), for an 803-page dissertation entitled " Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt: A study in classical African ethics.

His dissertation was entitled " A Sociological Account of Pragmatism: An Essay on the Sociology of Knowledge.

In 1713 in his public examination he defended a dissertation entitled De variis Novi Testamenti lectionibus, and sought to show that variety of readings did not detract from the authority of the Bible.

In 1960, Columbia awarded him a Ph. D .; his dissertation was entitled " The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties ," the title of his first book.

( Ph. D .) in History and Epigraphy with a ( published ) dissertation entitled De gente Aetolica amphictyoniae participe.

Yet in the same month, he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with a 28-page dissertation entitled Personal Observations of Damavand.