Nazis

German neonatalogist, 102, receives Ph.D. denied by Nazis

Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport was refused entrance to the oral exam at the University of Hamburg in 1938 by the Nazi authorities because her mother was Jewish.

The Nobel-Winning Scientist Who Wouldn’t Let the Nazis Keep Her Down

Born in Turin, in northwestern Italy, on April 22, 1909, Rita Levi-Montalcini had began her research on nerve cells at the University of Turin. But after being banned from the university in a purge of Jews in 1938, and then forced to hide during the Nazi occupation of Italy, she immigrated to the United States […]