Complex sentence: Gordon earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1992; his thesis, "Functional Programming and Input/Output", won the 1993 Distinguished Dissertation Award of the British Computer Society.
Split into simpler sentences: Gordon earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1992. Gordon's Ph.D. thesis, "Functional Programming and Input/Output", won the 1993 Distinguished Dissertation Award of the British Computer Society.