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A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years
Taco Cowboy writes: A story about a 102-year old lady doing her PhD thesis defense is not that common, but when the thesis defense was delayed by a whopping 77 years, that gotta raise some eyebrows. Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport studied diphtheria at the University of Hamburg in Germany and in 1938, the 25-year old Protestant-raised, German-born Ingeborg submitted for her doctorate thesis defense. She was denied her chance for her defense because her mother was of the Jewish ancestry, making her an official "cross-breed". As such the Nazi regime forbid the university from proceeding with her defense, for "racial reasons".
She became one of the thousands of scholars and researchers banished from German academe, which at the time included many of the world's most prestigious research institutions, because of Jewish ancestry or opposition to Nazi policies. Many of them ended up suffering or dying in concentration camps. Rudolf Degkwitz, Syllm's professor, was imprisoned for objecting to euthanizing children. Syllm, however, was able to reach the United States and earned her medical degree from the old Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Eventually she married a fellow physician named Samuel Mitja Rapoport, had a family, and moved back to Germany in the 1950s, where she achieved prominence in neonatology. Syllm-Rapoport, who is now 102 years old, might have remained just a doctor (if a very accomplished one) had not the present dean of the Hamburg medical school, Uwe Koch-Gromus, heard her story from a colleague of her son, Tom Rapoport, a Harvard cell biologist.
Determined to do what he could to mitigate this wrong, Koch-Gromus arranged Syllm-Rapoport's long-delayed defense. Despite failing eyesight, she brushed up on decades of developments in diphtheria research with the help of friends and the Internet. Koch-Gromus called the 45-minute oral exam given by him and two colleagues on 13 May in her Berlin living room "a very good test. Frau Rapoport has gathered notable knowledge about what's happened since then. Particularly given her age, she was brilliant."
She became one of the thousands of scholars and researchers banished from German academe, which at the time included many of the world's most prestigious research institutions, because of Jewish ancestry or opposition to Nazi policies. Many of them ended up suffering or dying in concentration camps. Rudolf Degkwitz, Syllm's professor, was imprisoned for objecting to euthanizing children. Syllm, however, was able to reach the United States and earned her medical degree from the old Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Eventually she married a fellow physician named Samuel Mitja Rapoport, had a family, and moved back to Germany in the 1950s, where she achieved prominence in neonatology. Syllm-Rapoport, who is now 102 years old, might have remained just a doctor (if a very accomplished one) had not the present dean of the Hamburg medical school, Uwe Koch-Gromus, heard her story from a colleague of her son, Tom Rapoport, a Harvard cell biologist.
Determined to do what he could to mitigate this wrong, Koch-Gromus arranged Syllm-Rapoport's long-delayed defense. Despite failing eyesight, she brushed up on decades of developments in diphtheria research with the help of friends and the Internet. Koch-Gromus called the 45-minute oral exam given by him and two colleagues on 13 May in her Berlin living room "a very good test. Frau Rapoport has gathered notable knowledge about what's happened since then. Particularly given her age, she was brilliant."
That's not a Godwin.
You have to accuse someone of being a nazi to Godwin. If the story is explicitly about nazis, that's different.
for arranging this. It might be largely symbolic, but I heartily approve of what he has done. Something bright & positive, better than the trials of ancient concentration camp officials.
what are you, some sort of comment nazi?
She might have remained just a doctor, but now she's... a doctor doctor!
( huh? )
But seriously, this is awesome.
Also, WTF slashdot... how about linking to the primary source ( Wall Street Journal )
Can you imagine if it had been on Small Pox?
Hmmm...we actually cured that in the mean time, so... how would they handle that? Brushing up on the new research could be fairly quick.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
forbid forbade forbidden. It's forbade.
that gotta raise some eyebrows.
And you gotta learn how to use apostrophes. And not write "gotta."
As such the Nazi regime forbid
Forbade, or possibly forbad. If you don't know the correct tense of the verb you want to use, either look it up or think of another one.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Nah, they're just a Godwin Nazi. :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Thanks for posting this.
All I have to say.
In the 50's I would have to see a white man who would apply to go to the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
- too bad we don't have some racist and sexist Slashdoter to claim that, even five years after Hitler was in power, a Jewish women could study in a university, while today a White men is denied even to enter because some Black women replace him thanks to racism and sexism...
I...I think we just did have such a person.
Here's the final sentence from the article that didn't make it into TFS:
At a ceremony on 9 June, Syllm-Rapoport will officially become an M.D.-Ph.D. and, without doubt, the oldest new graduate of this or any other academic year.
even five years after Hitler was in power, a Jewish women could study in a university, while today a White men is denied even to enter because some Black women replace him thanks to racism and sexism...
The discrimination is bad enough for Whites, but Asians actually have it even worse.
And yet you can read online all day long, "Kill all Christians." Why is it wrong to hate on one religion but okay to hate on a different one?
This is his point. These sorts of "injustices" are way too influenced by time and relativism for his taste.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Except if they're Al-Qaeda, AMIRITE?
Al-Qaeda is to Muslims as the KKK is to Christians ... I have not problem wiping out Al-Qaeda or ISIS as that is just providing assistance in them meeting the Prophet, now wiping all Muslims is an entirely different story same applies to KKK vs. Christians.
Though honestly in my experience all "Children of the Book" are assholes.
I...I think we just did have such a person.
No, that was a racist and sexist Slashdoter claiming that claiming reverse discrimination isn't discrimination is racist and sexist.
even five years after Hitler was in power, a Jewish women could study in a university, while today a White men is denied even to enter because some Black women replace him thanks to racism and sexism...
The discrimination is bad enough for Whites, but Asians actually have it even worse.
Yes, i agree, (eastern) Asians have it worse in USA, but i am from Europe, where not so many (eastern) Asians exist, so... White Europeans have this "privilige"!
Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
I just really enjoyed grad school too much to want to finish, and they eventually made it clear to me that I'd better defend soon or they'd kick me out. Of course, I also wasn't accomplishing nearly as much in the interim as the article's subject.
It's an inspiring story. All the same, my dissertation defense is something that I'm just as happy I won't have the opportunity to tackle later in life...
I still have this nightmare.
I'm back in school 50 years later and have to finish some schoolwork I'd forgotten.
The only variable is whether I'm naked or just in my underwear.
My PhD thesis defense was delayed for three years, but for a different reason:
https://youtu.be/WeYsTmIzjkw
You are welcome on my lawn.
- too bad we don't have some racist and sexist Slashdoter to claim that, even five years after Hitler was in power, a Jewish women could study in a university, while today a White men is denied even to enter because some Black women replace him thanks to racism and sexism...
I...I think we just did have such a person.
Really? That's great! Who is he? Let's make Godwin proud...
Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
Someone who systematically kills millions of people deserves a worse name than 'assholes.'
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
You see what I mean, folks? Assholes. They show up everywhere.
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What's missing from TFA is that she wasn't just a "normal doctor" but became the first professor for neonatalogy ever worlwide - in the German Democratic Republic (i.e. the socialist part of Germany at the time), where she had moved to from the US, being a socialist and afraid of persecution during the McCarthy period.
She'll be at least 150 years old by the time she's paid off the student loans.
Nullius in verba
What a load of steaming bull. Injustice is tightly tied to reality. Yes the individuals were responsible and are assholes - but you can't just white out the systemic and social side of things like it never happened. That is willful ignorance, that is choosing to be blind. People like you like to pretend hate crimes do not exist, ignore the effects of symbolic violence on entire groups of people, and in general make a fetish of "its just people, man". The injustice of a system that treats one group of people worse than another is more than just the result of individual actors - and you need to fight both the individual AND systemic side if you want to win.
"earned her medical degree from the old Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "
102 years old? Wow. But she wasn't so old when she earned her degree in the 'Old Women's Medical College'.
You have obviously educated stupid brain. Four corner, 24 hr simultaneous days is truth. One-ness is demonic religion. Internet is always right, and also has four corners.
Well up until today? Never. As of today? Still never.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
When someone starts bombing civilians we have passed pretty clearly by the "ideological" into the "corporeal". I can guarantee you if ISIS / Al Queda were sitting in their corner of the world spouting their ideology at the top of their lungs we really wouldn't care. They are fair game not because of their ideology but because they go beyond having a belief, to trying to force it upon others with violence. It is the latter, and not the former, that absolutely makes it OK to wipe them out entirely. They have literally exclaimed that they will kill us if we don't kill them first, and then acted upon it. See the difference?
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
True, but Bush was already taken :-)
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
While the injustice was definitely egregious, the original injustice was not the reason for all 77 years of the 'delay'.
If I call him a Nazi am I invoking Godwin or telling the truth??? This is my paradox... That is not pair of docs, that is when you have two versions of the manual and no about.txt to figure out which version you have.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Abject nonsense, you scared little man.
Abject nonsense, you scared little man.
You have a problem with shy retarded midgets?
Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
Pedophilia is only bad because society decided it was bad. Before we decided it was bad, it wasn't. There's no proof that there is any psychological damage to children who engage in sexual acts with adults that isn't caused by how such children are treated by other adults, and how sex in general is treated. In other words, children feel violated because they are treated as having been violated. If you convince a child to eat an ice cream cone, we don't consider that abuse, even if they wouldn't have eaten it without your encouragement. It is only because we view sex as requiring some higher level of acquiescence that the idea of statutory rape can exist.
Don't treat children as victims and they won't feel they are victims. Sex is physically-induced pleasure. Like a good massage.
[...] you simply have to compare someone to a Nazi, or an idea to a Nazi idea [...]
You know, that is actually something Joseph Goebbels used to do a lot.
Godlost?
I'm a heterosexual male.
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hate all religions equally?
I can only assume you are intentionally misdirecting the conversation. The U.S. has never declared war upon an entire nation or people, and then proceeded to target everyone including all civilians, women and children first if they can have it. Try not to be such an ass next time.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
No. Darth Vader is no different.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
When someone starts bombing civilians we have passed pretty clearly by the "ideological" into the "corporeal". I can guarantee you if ISIS / Al Queda were sitting in their corner of the world spouting their ideology at the top of their lungs we really wouldn't care. They are fair game not because of their ideology but because they go beyond having a belief, to trying to force it upon others with violence. It is the latter, and not the former, that absolutely makes it OK to wipe them out entirely. They have literally exclaimed that they will kill us if we don't kill them first, and then acted upon it. See the difference?
Gee, are you trying to force your beliefs on me here? I see what you are doing there, problem is you don't.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
I can only assume you are intentionally misdirecting the conversation. The U.S. has never declared war upon an entire nation or people, and then proceeded to target everyone including all civilians, women and children first if they can have it.
Yeah, they only kill them "by accident". Try not to be such an American next time.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
You are a complete idiot. The only belief I am going to "force upon you" is that if you announce intent to harm me, and it is clear that your words are not merely words but you instead have established a record of actually acting on such words, then you can expect I'll force my belief that you deserve to die right down your ignorant throat.
... and make no mistake about it, you are a seriously stupid douchebag.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
You are a complete idiot.
You are a complete Murkan. Fuck off and die painfully like all the innocent victims of American aggression. IOW HAND
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.