She completed her PhD in History in 1958.
She'd taken up prostitution, it turned out, to pay her bills while completing her PhD.
Emily Bullock completed her PhD in creative writing at the Open University in April 2014.
Mirzakhani, 37, is of Iranian descent and completed her PhD at Harvard in 2004.
"This is where we get this confusability," says Bear, who has recently completed her PhD.
She completed her PhD under Stephen Hawking in 1990 The epic breadth of Stephen's research makes it challenging to summarise.
She studied microbiology at Manchester University, before moving to Imperial College for her Masters, and then back to Manchester to complete her PhD investigating immunity to parasites.
She has taken 2013 off to complete her PhD in criminal law at King's College University and write her autobiography, Dreams Do Come True.
My fiancee has her own university accommodation and once she has completed her PhD and found employment we hope to build a home together.
She went on to complete her PhD with the group and in 1975 went to the US on a research fellowship, but was back after a year.
