102-year-old finally gets PhD denied by Nazis

BERLIN (AP) — Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport wasn’t allowed to defend her doctoral thesis in 1938 under the Nazis because she was part-Jewish. Nearly eight decades later, she became Germany’s oldest recipient of a doctorate at age 102 on Tuesday. The neonatologist, a specialist in caring for newborns, cleared the final hurdle last month by passing an oral…