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

Examples of PhD in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web By the time Srinivas was working toward his PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley, Pichai had been crowned chief executive of Google. Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024 Adapted from Cultures of Growth by Mary C. Murphy, PhD, published by Simon and Schuster. Mary C. Murphy, Fortune Well, 19 Mar. 2024 Hard tap water refers to water that contains a higher concentration of minerals, such as calcium and magnesium, Anna Gitter, PhD, an environmental researcher with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, told Verywell in an email. Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 14 Mar. 2024 In 1943, Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes graduated from the Catholic University of America with her PhD in mathematics. Essence, 14 Mar. 2024 Unimpressed with what the market had to offer, Wong—then a PhD student at Cambridge—decided to design his own. Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024 True stars can attract even more cash: AI engineers with a PhD and several years of experience building AI models can command compensation as high as $20 million over four years, said Ali Ghodsi, who as CEO of AI start-up DataBricks is regularly competing to hire AI talent. Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024 Students in master’s and PhD programs are not eligible. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024 Robert got through Harvard in three years and received his PhD from the University of Göttingen two years later, in 1927, at age 23. Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024

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Word History

Etymology

New Latin philosophiae doctor

First Known Use

1839, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of PhD was in 1839

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“PhD.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/PhD. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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