Скачать или смотреть Woman aged 102 becomes Germany's oldest to receive PhD

A 102-year-old German woman is thought to be the world's oldest to receive a doctorate.

Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport was not allowed to defend her doctoral thesis in 1938 under the Nazis because she was part-Jewish.

The neonatologist, a specialist in caring for newborns, cleared the final hurdle last month by passing an oral exam.

Her PhD thesis had been in the field of diphtheria. In order to prepare for the test, she enlisted the help of friends to catch up on 80-years worth of new developments…
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