A triple degree success.A professor has kept it in the family scoring a hat-trick at Newcastle University. Bernard Weiss Bernard Weiss (or Bernhard, or Weiss, depending on who cited him) was a fictional linguist invented by unknown(s) in order to back the theories that differentiate between Valencian and the Catalan language, but it might be also possible the reversed possibility: It , 57, collected his doctor of engineering degree ( his third degree from the university in just over 30 years. Prof Weiss, who was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, received his first degree, a BSc, in 1971 and was awarded a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1975. In 1940, Prof Weiss' mother Frances, now 90, graduated from the university with a bachelors degree in medicine. Her late husband, Joseph, Prof Weiss' father, joined the newly-formed King's College as a demonstrator dem·on·stra·tor n. 1. One that demonstrates, such as a participant in a public display of opinion. 2. An article or product used in a demonstration. demonstrator Noun 1. in the Department of Chemistry. |
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