102 year-old German woman Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport gets PhD almost 80 years after the Nazis prevented her from sitting her final exam. She is the world's oldest person to be awarded a doctorate on Tuesday.
According to BBC, Ingeborg Rapoport (then Syllm) finished her medical studies in 1937 and wrote her doctoral thesis on diphtheria - a serious problem in Germany at the time. But because of Nazi oppression she has had to wait almost eight decades before being awarded her PhD.
