Semiconductor research in the USSR
MAY 01, 1958
An account of a trip made last year by an American physicist to Soviet Russia, during which he visited several of the important semiconductor research institutes and interviewed, among others, Academicians Joffe, Kapitza, and Landau. Visits were also made to semiconductor research centers in Paris, Prague, Erlangen, Pretzfeld, and Zurich. The author is supervisor of solid‐state research at the Bendix Aviation Research Laboratories in Detroit.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3062554
The trip described in the present report was an experiment in determining to what extent a private American tourist could visit scientific establishments in the USSR. The author had no official sponsorship by either the Soviet or the American governments, nor any official mission or invitation.
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W. Crawford Dunlap, Bendix Aviation Research Laboratories, Detroit.
© 1958 American Institute of Physics
