A 76-year-old obtained his Ph.D., 52 years after starting the Ph.D. program. Nick Eckstein received a prestigious scholarship in 1970 to obtain a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh, but after 5 years he returned to the Kingdom. United States without a degree.

“Some problems are so big that they take the better part of a lifetime to get over them. They need to think long and hard. That took me 50 years,” Axten said, according to the New York Post.

Nick Eckstein earned his PhD after a hiatus of more than 50 years

Eckstein was officially awarded his PhD in Philosophy this week in front of his wife Claire and 11-year-old granddaughter Freya, having taught at the University of Bristol between 2016 and 2022.

“The philosophy graduate students were all 23, but they accepted me as one of them,” Eckstein recalled. “They are smart people full of ideas, and I loved talking to them — especially in the pub in the afternoon.”.”

The university says Exten’s research, which he hopes to publish, is a new theory for understanding human behavior based on the values ​​each person holds.

Nick Eckstein in his youth

Eckstein began his studies in 1967

“When I started my undergraduate studies in Leeds in 1967, it was still flower power and there was a revolutionary feeling. It was the time of the Vietnam war, Paris and Prague and student sit-ins,” Eckstein said. “Sociology and psychology were suddenly burgeoning subjects. I went to study them because I I wanted to understand people.”

“Nick has been an incredibly enthusiastic, energetic and committed student during his time here,” his supervisor at the University of Bristol, Professor Samir Okasha, said in a statement.