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by ptrott2017 3144 days ago
D is an initial but Dr. D. Richard Hipp has a PhD from Duke - graduated in 1992 (his thesis can be found here - its worth a read: http://bit.ly/2ygiDWx ) hence the Dr.
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Thank you. Always thought it was a weird comprehension error from the slightly unusual character-combo.

The weird error may have been mine.