This is a great story. A small part of it is a testament to the role of
the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University in training
women and minority doctors in Philadelphia. In those days, the Dean of
the Medical School interviewed every medical school applicant.
Unfortunately, both institutions no longer exist. They were part of a
larger system that went bankrupt. The remnants were incorporated into
the Drexel University School of Medicine.
Mike Williams
On 6/11/15 1:00 AM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest
wrote:
Subject: Longest Time To A Ph.D. Oral Defense EVER!
From: "Mike Palij"<[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 14:10:10 -0400
X-Message-Number: 2
There is a remarkable story in the popular press about
a German woman getting her Ph.D. in neonatology after
passing her oral defense. The remarkable part is that
she is 102 years old and had to wait almost 80 years to
get to do her oral defense. It's a story about racist German
Nazis and rabid U.S. anti-communists and, ultimately,
resolution.
Several outlets have the story but with varying degrees of
detail. For those in a hurry, here's the story on the US News
and World Reports:website
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/06/09/102-year-old-jewish-woman-to-receive-doctorate-in-germany
and from the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33048927
The Wall Street Journal article has the greatest amount of
detail, explaining why after coming to the US and getting
an MD degree she and her husband would go back to
Germany, to East Berlin, in the early 1950s after the US
Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee
(see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy )
got interested in their involvement with the US communist
party. For the Wall Street Journal account see:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/from-nazi-germany-a-tale-of-redemption-1431576062
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