A Jewish paediatrician who was denied a PhD by the Nazis is to receive her award at the age of 102.
Ingeborg Rapoport was 25 when she was granted a PhD for her thesis on diphtheria, the UK newspaper The Times reported on 1 June. However, her exam forms were marked with a yellow stripe because her mother was Jewish, and she was not allowed to take the viva exam that would have led to the award.
In the same year, she emigrated to the United States, qualified as a doctor and worked there until her return to Germany in 1950.
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