D. Allan Bromley
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David Allan Bromley was a Canadian-American physicist, academic administrator and science advisor to President George H. W. Bush. His field of research was the study of low-energy nuclear reactions an
David Allan Bromley
The Bromley family circa 1920. From the left: Milton Escort Bromley (D. Allan Bromley's father), Sarah Holmes Gordon Bromley (paternal grandmother); David Bromley, (grandfather); and Retta Bromley (paternal aunt)
Doctor of Philosophy
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A Doctor of Philosophy is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original resear
D. Allan Bromley
…Westmeath, Ontario, Canada, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1949 and a Master of Science in 1950 from Queen's University. He received a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in nuclear physics in 1952 from the University of Rochester in the United States. From 1952 to 1953, he was an instructor, and from 1953 to 1954…
Doctor of Philosophy degree certificate of Columbia University
A new PhD graduate from the University of Birmingham, wearing a doctor's bonnet, shakes hands with the chancellor.
A South African PhD graduate (on the right, wearing a ceremonial gown)
A PhD gown at the University of Cambridge. Reflecting the status of the PhD as a lower doctorate, it uses a black Master's gown with scarlet facings rather than the scarlet Doctor's gown of the higher doctorates at Cambridge.