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Ingeborg Rapoport

July 1, 2015 in Modern Worthies

Ingeborg Rapoport

Oldest person to earn a doctoral degree

After being refused the opportunity to defend her doctoral thesis due to Nazi anti-Semitism, she returned to it 77 years later.

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