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PhD

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abbreviation

  1. Also: DPhil.  Doctor of Philosophy

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"We didn't expect to see such a hot cluster atmosphere so early in cosmic history," said lead author Dazhi Zhou, a PhD candidate in the UBC department of physics and astronomy.

From Science Daily

Jayawardhana, who has also held positions at the University of Toronto, University of Michigan and UC Berkeley, has a PhD in astronomy from Harvard University and completed his undergraduate studies at Yale.

From Los Angeles Times

Device fabrication was led by Pallavi Gaur, first author and PhD student at CeNSE.

From Science Daily

However, an analysis, published in the British Medical Journal in November 2024 by a PhD student Cédric Lemarchand and colleagues, questioned how easy it was to determine the precise effect of psychedelic drugs.

From BBC

Qi Dai, MD, PhD, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and lead author of the study, explained that the healthiest vitamin D range appears to fall in the middle of a U-shaped curve.

From Science Daily