Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:16:28 10/20/04
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On October 20, 2004 at 07:21:25, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On October 19, 2004 at 18:39:39, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>Hi Bob, >> >>since many years I wrote: >>Prof. Robert Hyatt >>(public information on webpages and so on). >> >>For around five years I got the information Prof. "with" ""Dr."" is right. >>Please no ask me ... from which person you have the info. My brain loosed the >>information. >> >>In engines.ini from Arena Chess GUI we have add at the moment: >>Dr. Robert Hyatt (the next variant). >> >>What is right Bob? >> >>Prof. Dr. Robert Hyatt >>Prof. Robert Hyatt >>Dr. Robert Hyatt >>Robert Hyatt >>Bob Hyatt >>Robert >>or ... >>only Bob :-)) >> >>I am sure you will say: Robert Hyatt >> >>But this is important if persons have interest to public information ... >>Hope you understand the "little" problem! >> >>Have a nice day! >> >>A member in our forum wrote today: >> >>... >> >>>Hi, >>>the name isn't: >>>Dr. Robert Hyatt >>>(without Dr. because after my information Mr. Robert Hyatt isn't "Dr."). >>>Right is Prof. Robert Hyatt without "Dr." >>>Robert is a Prof. without Dr. !! >>>This is a different ... but the most means that a Prof. must be a "Dr." too :-) >>>Best >>>Frank >> >>I disagree. If you look at main.c in Crafty source you will see the copyright >>statemen "Crafty, copyright 1996-2001 by Robert M. Hyatt, Ph.D." Also, if you >>refer to the University of Alabama, Birmingham web site, the faculty listing for >>him carries the same credentials. >>A person with a Ph.D has the right to use Dr., so Dr. Robert M. Hyatt is >>correct. > >Hi, >in Germany that is technically incorrect, but basically anybody who has a Ph.D. >title and asks to use the prefix "Dr." with his name will get permission to do >so. >I guess that Frank asks because the name authorities here are quite pedant. My >advisor has a doctor title from Cambridge, but does not have permission to use >the title "Dr." together with his name in Germany (he does not care and has not >asked for it), so the correct way to address him is "Prof. Patterson", if you >call him "Dr. Patterson" he will immediately correct you. >If Bob lived in Germany and allowed people to call him "Dr. Hyatt" without first >asking for permission to use that title, he would get fined. >José. The rule in Germany seems very strange to me and I do not understand the reason for it. Professor is usually more than a doctor. There are doctors who are not professors but the opposite is rare. Professor is a title that the university gives to part of the people who work in research and teaching and usually only to people who has the doctor title. Doctor is a title that you get for research. I am a doctor but not a professor because I never got that title from university. I left university after getting the ph.d title so there is no chance that I will get it in the near future. As far as I know anybody who has a Ph.D can call himself dr. without asking for a special permission. Uri
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