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ben_pfaff
on Dec 8, 2022
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The sad story of Heisenberg's doctoral oral exam (...
These days, it is absolutely unheard of for someone to get a doctorate at age 21. I don't know whether it was unusual then.
rerx
on Dec 8, 2022
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Stephen Wolfram got it at age 20, in theoretical physics, from CalTech.
(OK, that's also 40+ years ago by now)
nbernard
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I'm not sure about unusual or not, but I believe it was (then and there) possible to start a doctorate right after graduating from high-school (if I remember correctly from a biography of J. von Neumann).
f1shy
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I know plenty “Industrie Dr.” 22 or 23 yo
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