PhD and Doctor degrees are sometimes just handled out to important inventors without bothering them to write and defend a thesis. At least it happened in Soviet

PhD and Doctor degrees are sometimes just handled out to important inventors without bothering them to write and defend a thesis. At least it happened in Soviet Union with some researchers. For example, see 1935 thesis details. https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%...