102-year-old to become the oldest recipient of a doctorate

I may have a username, but I'm generally just a lurker in this forum. (You can see that if you compare the number of my posts with the date of my registration.) This, however, is an article that I just had to share with you: Ingeborg Rapoport to Become Oldest Recipient of Doctorate After Nazi Injustice is Righted - WSJ

It seems she even had to do new research - at 102 and almost blind, as it seems - to get that degree.

 

What a nice story. Thank you, Mintaru.

I have written about the time I got a letter from a man who said he had been thrown out of the Columbia PhD program in 1913, and wondered if there was anywhere he could complete his doctorate. I mentioned his 'amusing typo' -- 1913 -- and he replied that it was correct. He was now 96 years old, his wife of 70+ years had died, and he was bored to tears. I approached Columbia on his behalf, but they sneered. But Union Institute took him on, and he completed his PhD in three years, at 99. The reason Columbia threw him out: he insisted on doing his doctoral research on the near-certainty (he felt) of an imminent world war, and they said that was so dumb, no one there would work with him.