[Wonder Warthog]

"Another discrepency is the time line, which is slightly off. According to the Univ. of Milan website, it is required to have both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree before applying for the Doctorate. The Bachelor's program is 3 years; the Master's adds another 2 years. The doctorate is 3 or 4 years. Assuming Rossi entered school at the age of 6 (the age most Italians begin school), he would have graduated at the age of 19 in spring, 1969. Further assuming that he proceeded directly from high school to college, took no breaks, and graduated each level in the minimum time, the earliest I can figure out someone born in 1950 could have earned a PhD would have been spring of 1977. If he had entered elementary school early, at the age of 5, he could possibly have pulled off a Doctorate in spring, 1976. Either way, his timeline is one or two years short."

LOL. Your "research" is laughable. Lots of speculation, very little in the way of verifiable fact. Here's a clue. I was born in 1947. I graduated with my PhD (chemistry) in 1973. And I lost a year switching from mechanical engineering to chemistry. So much for your timeline.

[exDemMom]

LOL. Your "research" is laughable. Lots of speculation, very little in the way of verifiable fact. Here's a clue. I was born in 1947. I graduated with my PhD (chemistry) in 1973. And I lost a year switching from mechanical engineering to chemistry. So much for your timeline.

I said at the bottom of that post exactly where I got the information. My timeline came from the wiki entry on Italian education, and from the U of Milan website. In Italy, unlike in the US, it is required to have a Master's degree prior to getting a Doctorate. Their timeline appears to be more strict than that for American education. Furthermore, unlike the timeline we would have to believe if that document posted at Nyteknik represented a Doctorate earned by Rossi, your own personal timeline to a Doctorate is actually possible in the Italian model. Rossi's is at least a year too short. (Although, as I already pointed out, I have my doubts as to the authenticity of the letter as posted on the Nyteknik site.)

BTW, much of the U of Milan website can be accessed in English. And the parts that are only in Italian can be translated by Google.

Just because you don't like the results of my on-line research, doesn't mean I was sloppy or incomplete about it. You are free to look at the U of Milan website and find the exact degree that Rossi claims to have earned and post it here, with links, to prove me wrong.