A 76-year-old Bristol student has finally graduated - more than 50 years after he started his PhD. The University of Bristol conferred Dr Nick Axten as a Doctor of Philosophy this week.
He said the 52 year gap since he started his PHD had given him time for “a long, hard think” to get his work right. In 1970 Dr Axten received a prestigious Fulbright scholarship for a PhD in mathematical sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
But after five years he returned to the UK with the PhD unfinished. He said: ““What I was trying to do in the early 70s was exceptionally difficult.
