He completed his training in pharmacy also, taking his degree with high honors in 1797, and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine.

Five years later, he was awarded the university's degree in law.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of letters by Rhodes University and the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of the Witwatersrand in 1972.

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

Although the first graduate degree, a PhD in classics, was awarded in 1885, many of the current PhD programs trace their origins to the 1960s.

When university degrees became a prerequisite to become a lawyer in England, the degree awarded was the undergraduate LL. B.

Physicians, graduates in medicine, are usually referred to by the title Dr. ( doutor ) even if they have not been awarded a doctoral degree.

An honorary doctorate is a doctoral degree awarded for service to the institution or the wider community.

), however, are only awarded as an honorary degree.

In August 1564 Oxford was among 17 nobles, knights and esquires in the Queen's entourage who were awarded the honorary degree of Master of Arts by the University of Cambridge, and was awarded another by Oxford University on a Royal progress in 1566.

The following year, St. Andrews awarded Cantor an honorary doctorate, but illness precluded his receiving the degree in person.

The same institution awarded him a doctoral degree in Bible in 1972.

Such was Cagney's enthusiasm for farming that when he was awarded an honorary degree from Rollins College, he surprised the staff by writing a paper on soil conservation, rather than just " turning up with Ava Gardner on my arm ," as he put it.

Locke was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1656 and a master's degree in 1658.

In the same year, with his comrades Nizan, Larroutis, Baillou and Herland, he organized a media prank following Charles Lindbergh's successful New York-Paris flight ; Sartre & Co. called newspapers and informed them that Lindbergh was going to be awarded an honorary École degree.

He then returned to Cambridge University and was awarded his doctorate degree in mathematics in 1951.

Oxford University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in June 2005.

On 1 July 2011, Dalglish was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Ulster, for services to football and charity.

Sterne graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in January 1737 ; and returned in the summer of 1740 to be awarded his Master of Arts degree.

Newspaper advertising was mainly concentrated in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Eastern and Midwestern editions ) which averaged two prominent ads per month, and to a lesser degree the New York Herald Tribune and, for the west coast, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Pacific Coast edition ).

* First university west of the Mississippi to offer a doctoral degree in nursing

For example, moving clockwise on a 360 ° degree circle, a point due east would have an azimuth of 90 °, south 180 °, and west 270 °.

Beginning in the late 1980s there was unprecedented exposure for younger Chinese visual artists in the west to some degree through the agency of curators based outside the country such as Hou Hanru.

Ontonagon is within one degree of longitude to the east of the 90th meridian west which is actually the meridian for the Central Time Zone.

The Tuscarora School District covers an area of, stretching north-south from just south of 40 degrees north latitude to the Maryland border and from east of the 78 degree west longitude line to just west of Chambersburg, PA.

The reasons for this lack of precipitation is mostly the marked rain shadow effect caused by hills to the west of the Alicante Province ( and, to a lesser degree, those in the northern part of the province which, in turn, enhance the inverse Orographic lift effect around Cap de la Nau ).

Suburban development of the mid-twentieth century means that the built up area of Beeston is now continuous with the former villages of Chilwell to the west, and Wollaton and Lenton Abbey to the north ; Beeston is to a degree separated from Bramcote to the northwest by the Beeston Fields Golf Course.

The construction of the relief road to the west and north, and its connection in 2009 to the M8 to the east of Mitchelstown means that the town has become the smallest in Ireland to have a full 360 degree ring road.

Philip Hubert Frohman, who had designed his first fully functional home at the age of 14 and received his architectural degree at the age of 16, and his partners worked to perfect Bodley's vision, adding the carillon section of the central tower, enlarging the west façade, and making numerous smaller changes.

The metropolis was on the mainland about one degree west of the coast near a large river and a bay with the same name.

In the UK it is one degree 34 minutes west ( London ), and as the country is quite small that figure is fairly good for the whole of the country.

This travel in the 30 to 60 degree zone combines with the rotation of the earth to move the air currents from west to east, creating westerly winds.

He mostly attended Fort Worth and Dallas public schools, eventually graduating from Oak Cliff High School, then studied at Weatherford College in his mother's hometown of Weatherford, the seat of Parker County west of Fort Worth and then at the University of Texas at Austin, but he never received a bachelor's degree.

The elevation means that temperatures are typically 2 to 5 degrees C cooler than the lower suburbs of Melbourne to the west, with temperatures typically lowering by 1 degree C for every 150 m of elevation.

:" ... ( westward ) along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River ; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude ; from thence by a line due west on said latitude ... "

It towers 230 metres above the Surfers Paradise beach, giving viewers a 360 degree view of Brisbane to the north, the Gold Coast Hinterland to the west, Byron Bay to the south and the Pacific Ocean to the east.

:"... the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude ; from this last-mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude.

For example, Mount Bogong in Victoria at 1, 986 metres and is 591 metres higher and almost a degree and a half longitude further west.

The two guns were aimed west, resting on 13 steel support structures on solid wooden bases on a 34 degree slope.

It can continue to the west, and if it is far enough south, it will cross the Windward Islands into the Caribbean Sea, possibly affecting Venezuela to some degree.

The nebula can be spotted 1 degree west of the star Nu Aquarii.