Complex sentence: He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and earned a B.S. from the University of Michigan, 1916, then was awarded a Ph.D. in 1933 from the same institution, with a thesis on "The System Beta 1000 Plus Delta 31".
Split into simpler sentences: He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and earned a B.S. from the University of Michigan, 1916. In 1933 he was awarded a Ph.D. from the same institution with a thesis titled, "The System Beta 1000 Plus Delta 31".