Having finished his coursework, Sapir moved on to his doctoral fieldwork, spending several years in short term appointments while working on his dissertation.

The couple lived in Germany while Curry completed his dissertation, then, in 1929, moved to State College, Pennsylvania where Curry accepted a position at Penn State College.

" Folie et deraison " originated as Foucault's doctoral dissertation ; this was Foucault's first major book, mostly written while he was the Director of the Maison de France in Sweden.

From 1935 to 1937 he was associated with a law firm in Haarlem while working on his doctoral dissertation on the Portuguese constitution of 1933 and Portuguese corporatism of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, whom he much admired at the time.

In some fields, research positions are more coveted than teaching positions because student researchers are typically paid to work on the dissertation they are required to complete anyway, while teaching is generally considered a distraction from one's work.

The test was originally developed by Ludwig Wilhelm Winkler, in later literature referred to as Lajos Winkler, while working at Budapest University on his doctoral dissertation in 1888.

Some years earlier, while researching the introduction to his dissertation, he was looking at the mechanical calculators in the Science Museum, London, United Kingdom, and had realised that the future of calculators lay in electronics.

His inspiration for a new dissertation came while working at Xerox PARC where he read a paper about the ALOHA network at the University of Hawaii.

In some countries / universities, the word " thesis " or a cognate is used as part of a bachelor's or master's course, while " dissertation " is normally applied to a doctorate, while in others, the reverse is true.

In France, the academic dissertation or thesis is called a thèse while the word dissertation is reserved for shorter ( 1, 000 – 2, 000 words ), more generic academic treatises.

At universities in the United Kingdom, the term thesis is usually associated with PhD / EngD ( doctoral ) and research master's degrees, while dissertation is the more common term for a substantial project submitted as part of a taught master's degree or an undergraduate degree ( e. g. BA, BSc, BMus, BEd, BEng etc.

In 1963, while working in the UK, he was awarded a Master of Arts degree from the University of Cape Town for a dissertation on the novels of Ford Madox Ford.

In some fields, research positions are more coveted than teaching positions because student researchers are typically paid to work on the dissertation they are required to complete anyway, while teaching is generally considered a distraction from one's work.

The Schmitt trigger was invented by US scientist Otto H. Schmitt in 1934 while he was still a graduate student, later described in his doctoral dissertation ( 1937 ) as a " thermionic trigger ".

After their marriage in 1937, Dorothy Helen, or " Freya ," worked to support the couple while Mills did graduate work, and typed and copy edited much of his work including his Ph. D. dissertation.

In the former case, the degree comprises advanced coursework in a specific area of law as well as ( limited ) related research, usually in the form of a " short dissertation ", while in the latter, the degree is entirely thesis (" dissertation ") based.

Jenson's doctoral dissertation ( revised and published in 1963 as Alpha and Omega ) was completed in Basel, with Barth's approval, and so Jenson returned to Luther College, where he continued to study Barth while also developing an increasing interest in the philosophy of Hegel.

Finally, after the Fox gives an extended dissertation on Tweetle Beetles who fight ( battle ) with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle ( a Tweetle Beetle Bottle Puddle Paddle Battle Muddle ), Knox acts on his frustration by stuffing Fox into the bottle, reciting a tongue-twister of his own:

The licentiate is particularly popular with students already involved in the working life, for the reason that completing a full doctor's dissertation while working would be too difficult.

In 1913, while employed in teaching at the University of Lille, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Paris on " Liberty in Descartes and Theology ".

Shortly thereafter, he went on to earn a Master's degree while working on his second novel, soon followed by his Ph. D. in English at the University of Oregon, where he studied the role of horror and nostalgia in 20th century culture in a dissertation called The Popular Uncanny.

In 1898 he went back to Paris to write a PhD dissertation on The Religious Philosophy of Kant at the Sorbonne, and to study in earnest with Widor.

In 1867, Cantor completed his dissertation, on number theory, at the University of Berlin.

In 1929, at the age of 23, he completed his doctoral dissertation under Hans Hahn's supervision.

At the age of thirteen he enrolled at the University of Basel, and in 1723, received his Master of Philosophy with a dissertation that compared the philosophies of Descartes and Newton.

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.

Brian Reid, in his 1980 dissertation at Carnegie Mellon University, developed the theory and a working implementation of descriptive markup in actual use.

Habann, a student at the University of Jena, investigated the magnetron for his doctoral dissertation of 1924.

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 ".

Defending a dissertation in history in 1900, she became the second woman to finish a doctorate at a Swedish university.

Cho also wrote his Ph. D. dissertation at Stanford on web crawling.

Wilson began his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1883 and three years later completed his doctoral dissertation, " Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics " and received a PhD in history and political science.

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 ").

Vidav got his Ph. D. under Plemelj's advisory in 1941 at the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation Kleinovi teoremi v teoriji linearnih diferencialnih enačb ( Klein's theorems in the theory of linear differential equations ).

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

Even at that young age, Hymes had a reputation as a strong linguist ; his dissertation, completed in one year, was a grammar of the Kathlamet language spoken near the mouth of the Columbia and known primarily from Franz Boas ’ s work at the end of the 19th century.

He received his degree in medicine at Berlin in 1853, but his dissertation title was " De plantarum generatione sexuali ", a botanical subject.

At the same time, Dorothy Denning at Purdue University was publishing her Ph. D. dissertation, which dealt with " lattice-based information flows " in computer systems.

She obtained a master's degree ( MA ) from Radcliffe in 1962 and pursued further graduate studies at Harvard University for two years but never finished because she failed to complete her dissertation on “ The English Metaphysical Romance.

After enrolling in a Computer Science Ph. D. program at Stanford University, Page was in search of a dissertation theme and considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.

Vliet made claim to have been a lecturer at the Barnsdall Art Institute in Los Angeles at the age of eleven, although it is likely he simply gave a form of artistic dissertation.

What follows is a long dissertation made by the Chief Chamberlain Lu Daolong on the ranging measurements and sizes of wheels and gears, along with a concluding description at the end of how the device ultimately functions: