doctor's degree
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Meaning
one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university
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After taking his doctor's degree in 1578, he settled as a physician in Campo San Pietro, a small town in the Paduan territory.
After the death of Mosellanus, he went to Italy from 1524 to 1526, where he took his doctor's degree.
In 1869, he earned a doctor's degree in engineering from what is now the Polytechnic University of Turin (then the Technical School for Engineers).