https://prabook.com/web/richard_alan.miller/658465
Education
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Washington State University, 1966. Degree in Fluidics (honorary), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967. Master of Science in Physics, University Delaware, 1968.
Engineer in training/professional engineer, University Washington, 1969.Career
Physicist instruments products division, Dupont, Wilmington, Delaware, 1966-1968; physicist, The Boeing Company/MASD, Seattle, 1968-1971; biophysicist department anesthesiology, U. Washington, Seattle, 1971-1973;
No honorary degrees is an MIT tradition going back to ... Thomas Jefferson
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Honorary degrees are a routine part of graduation ceremonies at nearly every college in the land -- but not at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT's founder, William Barton Rogers, regarded the practice of giving honorary degrees as "literary almsgiving ... of spurious merit and noisy popularity."
https://news.mit.edu/2001/commdegrees
busted.
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