{"id":26452,"date":"2015-06-10T16:10:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/?p=26452"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:50:23","slug":"a-102-year-old-woman-gets-the-phd-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/a-102-year-old-woman-gets-the-phd-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"A 102-year-old woman gets a PhD degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible that Miss Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport will enter the Guinness Book of World Records after she become the oldest woman to ever receive a doctoral degree.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26458\" style=\"width: 842px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rapaport.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rapaport.png\" alt=\"Source: http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" width=\"842\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rapaport.png 842w, https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rapaport-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rapaport-600x331.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1938 under the nazi regime, she wasn\u2019t allowed to defend her doctoral thesis on diphtheria because of her part-Jewish origin. Nearly eight decades later, at 102 years old, she passed her oral exam and became the world\u2019s oldest recipient of a doctorate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26462\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/102-german-woman.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/102-german-woman-239x300.png\" alt=\"Source: http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/102-german-woman-239x300.png 239w, https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/102-german-woman.png 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>It\u2019s never too late to take exams<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Indeed, on Tuesday, 9 of June, 2015\u00a0Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport finally got her PhD degree from the University of Hamburg in Germany. She explains that her diploma is seen as part of recognition, not only for her, but also for all of those who had known oppression and discrimination. She told to a local German public television station &#8220;<em>for me personally, the degree didn&#8217;t mean anything, but to support the great goal of coming to terms with history, I wanted to be part of that<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During her working life Miss Syllm was a neonatologist: she was specialised in caring for new-born babies. She was indeed the first head of the neonatology department at the Charit\u00e9 University Hospital in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>After her oral exam, Mr. Uwe Koch-Gromus, the medical faculty\u2018s dean, said: <em>&#8220;She was brilliant, and not only for her age. We were impressed with her intellectual alertness, and left speechless by her expertise, also with regard to modern medicine\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible that Miss Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport will enter the Guinness Book of World Records after she become the oldest woman to ever receive a doctoral 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