SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A042500150001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 2, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, i,.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
C-O-N-F-I-D E-N-T-I-A-L
Czechoslovakia
SC~JECT Scientific Research
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DATE ACQ.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. JUN 1958
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(report containing miscellaneous information
on various aspects of scientific research in CzPnhncl nvsalria
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SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information Concerning
Scientific Research
DATE: 13 May 1958
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3. A laboratory for low temperature research was established in the institute
of Technical Physics in the second half of 1957
the degree with which it would be used in conjunction with semi-
conductor research. other institutes had facilities
for research activities in s e the Military
Technical Institute might conduct low temperature research but could
not give any facts substantiating this opinion.
4. The specialized field of the theory of the chemical bond of isolated
molecules is represented in world literature by many publications and
more and more attention has been devoted to it during recent years.
The countries of the Soviet bloc are far behind the democratic countries
in this field. Only a very few scientists in the Soviet Union, Hungary
and Poland have the qualifications to make contributions in this field.
For the most part, they only add a few additional details to results
obtained previously by scientists of the f
Syrkin (fnu) and Djatkina (f nu) work in this specialized
field in the Soviet Unions their names are familiar from literature
published in the Soviet Union. Their work was rather more empirical and
semi-empirical than theoretical. In Hungary a group of scientists,
working under the guidance of the theoretical physicist Gombas (fnu),
adhered to a line of statistical theory which had not as yet produced
any important results. The theoretical physicist Kolos (fnu) worked
in this field in Poland. He was apparently guided by the publications
of Western scientists. Professor Kockel (fnu) worked in this field in
East Germany.
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Hundreds of scientists have achieved remarkable results in this field in
the democratic countries. For instance, the radiological determination
of crystal structures is, according to Western literature, unthinkable
without close cooperation with scientists in the field of the theory of
chemical bond. Recently, the importance of this cooperation has been
realized by the Soviet bloc countries and research work in this specialty
has been increased In the Soviet Union. research 50X1-HUM
was being directed in the wrong way, it was begun with study of the
hydrogen bond. this was a much too complicated 50X1-HUM
problem and could hardly be solved by scientists who did not have
sufficient experience even with the basic problem of chemical bond.
According to Soviet publications, N.D. Sokolov studied hydrogen bonch
in the. Soviet Union, mainly empirically and without profound theoretical
interpretation. Judging from publications in world literature, 50X1-HUM
the United States is leading in this field, mainly because
of the high-level achi nts in the production and use of electronic
h h-s eed computers.
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ten percent of all literature in this field was published)
and that only approximately three
percent of it originated in e Soviet bloc. A substantial part of 50X1-HUM
Soviet bloc publications were written by Hungarian research scientists.
In Czechoslovakia no research work was done on the theory of the chemical
bond based on theoretical physics until 1956. At that time there were
only very few physicists who were able to understand the basic principles
of this th owever, did any actual research work in this field.
Until 1957 not a si le a er on this sub ect which
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first scientist who began working in this field was Dr. J. Koutecky,
now working at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czechoslovak
Academy of Sciences. Professor Doctor Zdenek Matyas, I 50X1-HUM
was by far the foremost Czechoslovak scientist in this field. Professor
Matyas began a series of lectures at Charles University in Prague which
he called "The Electronic Structure of Molecule:". Unfortunately
Professor Matyas died iL June, 1957. However, under his influence 50X1-HUM
other scientists, e.g., Dr. Josef Pliva from the Chemical Institute
of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and Dr. Emil Antoncik from the
Institute of Technical Physics, began to work actively in this field.
5. Czechoslovak solid-state physicists at the Institute of Technical Physics
studying the possibility of production of artificial semi-conductors on
the basis of the physical and chemical information of the constituents
were: Dr. J. Tauc, Dr. M. Matyas and Dr. (fnu) Trousil in close 50X1-HUM
worked on the technical aspects of this problem.
by the above-named scientists has been described in the "Journal of
the First Congress of Czechosovak Physicists". The conference was
held in Prague in 1957.
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