FULL MEMBERS ELECTED TO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; ENGINEERS RECEIVE AWARDS

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• Document Release Date: October 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 285
• Publication Date: December 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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SECURII7 INFORMATION
German Democratic Republic DATE OF
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Scientific - Miscellaneous, Academy of Sciences
Sociological - Awards
Daily nexapaper; bimonthly periodical
Berlin
Aug - 26 Sep 1951
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FULL MEMBERS ELECTED TO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES;
ENGT~iB~iS PECEI~E AWAP~S
5 BECOME MEMBERS OF GERMAN ACADEMY GF SCIENCES -- Berlin, Wissenschaft and
Fortschritt, No 4, Aug 51
The following prominent East German scientists have been elected to full
sembership in the German Acadeuw of Scienc.ea;
Prof Dr Btelnitz !fnu), National Prize winner and head of the department
of Finno-Ugrian languages at Humboldt University, Berlin, whose contribution yo
linguistics includes extensive research on the Ostyak language and on the history
of Finno-Ugrian vowel system, as yell as ~, textbook of the Russicn language
which has come to be accepted work on tha*, subJect in the German Democratic
Republic.
Prof Dr Kurt Schroeder co-director of the Research Institute for
Mathematics at the Gensan Aca emy o Sciences and professor of applied mathe-
matics at Humboldt University, whe is at present carrying on intensive research
in seientiflc lsbor-saving methods, for practical application in industry and
science.
Prof Dr Walter Grotrian ~~ National Prize winner and director of the
astrophysical laboratory of the German Acadeary of Scieacee, who has distinguished
himself with his important publications on the graph-:c prAaentation of the spectra
of atoms and ions. Professor Grotrian has been charged by the Academe of Sciences
with the coordination of all astron~m?^_al research carried on in the GDR.
Prof Dr Eduard Maurer National Prize winner and the first metal-
lurgist to be elected to full membership in the German Academy of 9ci.ence~.
Professor Maux:r has done intensive research in confection with the development
of steel production in the GDR. He is larged responsible far the invention of
rust-proof steel and for the qualitative improvement of Eaet German steel. Hie
research findings have made it. possible to lover the sulfur and phosphorus content
of steel. His method will produce steel comparable in quality to Thamae steel.
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Dr Erich Correns ~ Rational Prize vinner and director of the In-
stitute for Fiber Research, vho is the GDR's leading scientist and industrial
expert on cellulose, fibrous materials, Perlon, and other new synthetic
fabrics. Under his direction the institute has developed a process for the
manufacture of triacetate silk, vhich hoe been turned over to the Ministry for
Heavy Industry. At present, Dr Correns Ss engaged in developing c. new acrylic
nitrile fiber from domestic raw materials,
Minister Presiden`, Grotevohl recently received the members of an engineer-
ing collective vhose contributions to the machine-building industry form the
basis for a structural reorganization of strategic branches of the industry.
Grotewohl thanked the engineers on behalf of the German Democratic Republic and
presented them with bonuses.
The members of the callECtlve verer. chief engineer Kaluza; of Dresden;
graduate engineers Seidel of Chemnltz, Kueazel of Rosslau, and Koeckritz of
Halle; chief engineer Devitz, of Wildau; and engineers Karl Kunze of Dreedea,
Francke of Jena, Hans Kunze of Dresden, Schreiber oY Chemnitz, Hobusch of Braud-
Erbisdorf, Herold of Halle, Bettke of Berlin-Weissensee, Walkenbach of Dessau,
Liebig of Leipzig, and Fuh_:..sza of Halle, -- ADN
The goverment of the German Democratic Republic has avarded the designa-
tion Sondergueteklaase (of outs*.anding quality} to high-grade research micro-
scopes and optical lenses produced by the Rathenov Optical Works.
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