Manfred Steiner was awarded a PhD in physics by Brown. He is 89 years-old. His desire to become a physicist originated when he was a teenager in Vienna and had read about Albert Einstein and Max Planck. However, his mother and uncle advised him that studying medicine would be a better choice in that day's turbulent times.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1955 and moved to the United States just a few weeks later, where he had a successful career studying blood and blood disorders.
Steiner studied hematology at Tufts University and biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming a hematologist at Brown University. He became a full professor and led the hematology section of the medical school at Brown from 1985 to 1994.
Steiner found medical research satisfying, but it wasn’t quite the same as his fascination with physics. At age 70, he started taking undergraduate classes at Brown. He was planning to take a few courses that interested him, but by 2007, he accumulated enough credits to enroll in the Ph.D. program.
Guinness World Records says a 97-year-old man in Germany in 2008 was the oldest person to earn a doctorate, while news reports describe even older people pursuing such degrees.
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