• Michael Rowntree was Chairman of Oxfam for six years, and is one of only two people ever to be elected as its Chair Emeritus?

Facts on topics related to Emeritus

Lecturer

• the best known work of lecturer James Bass Mullinger is History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists, which took three decades to complete?

Habilitation

• Estonian-Jewish chemist Moses Wolf Goldberg earned the Habilitation degree in 1935 despite increasing xenophobia at ETH Zurich?

Ph.D.

• Georgia Tech professor Jeff S. Shamma and his MIT Ph.D. advisor Michael Athans both received the Donald P. Eckman Award, one of the most prestigious awards in control theory?
• Frank Ryan earned a Ph.D. in mathematics while playing quarterback for the Cleveland Browns?
• Ida Henrietta Hyde was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg?
• William Fawcett, a character actor in B-films and television from 1946 to the early 1970s, held a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a drama professor at Michigan State University prior to the start of his acting career?
• American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework?
• despite having a Ph.D. and being a foremost North American authority on the difficult mushroom genera Lactarius and Russula, Gertrude S. Burlingham only ever taught high school biology?
• mathematician Lennart Carleson received his Ph.D. when he was 22 years old and later supervised the thesis of Svante Janson, who received his first Ph.D. on his 22nd birthday?