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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 00:45:58 EDT
Subject: degrees

For the multitudes who are interested in Dr. Yuri Pichugin's academic
credentials, and mine:

In Russia and the Ukraine there is no degree exactly equivalent to the
American Ph.D.; the system is different and more complicated (and more
political). But Dr. Pichugin does have the status equivalent to Ph.D., and
does sometimes refer to himself as "Dr." or "Ph.D.," although in ordinary
correspondence, like many Americans, he signs with no title.

More importantly, he is an experienced cryobiologist (and avowed cryonicist
and immortalist), with 36 professional publications in established journals as
of 1996. Readers are invited to visit our web site to read some of the work he
has done with sheep heads and cat brains. (Go to "Contents" and click on
"Research.")

As for me, I have the B.S. and M.S. in physics and M.A. in math. I taught
physics and related subjects for many years at Wayne State University and
Highland Park Community College. Now that I am retired from teaching and have
a modem, I don't need the degrees.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
http://www.cryonics.org

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