abstract
| - In wartime Slovakia, there has been huge support for scientific and educational institutions, newly based or reformed to attracting Slovak and other scientists from Nazi-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Among others physicist as Dionýz Ilkovič has been returned to Slovakia. In 1941 Catholic priest-chemist as František Valentin, dean of Chemistry at Slovak Polytechnic, with Ilkovič as dean of new formed Chapter of physics found Physical-Chemical Seminars, where for example Werner Heisenberg in 1943 taught lecture. Great part of such scientists were active supporters of national-conservative government of Slovakia, among them physicist and chemist of cellulose Fridrich Zavarský, famous specialist in gynecology prof. Emil Filo, prof. Anton Bugan, dean of Construction school of Slovak Polytechnic, and many others. Substantive part of this people joined political emigrees in one huge flow of refugees at the end of the war (of course also with human scientists, lawyers, writers and so on). Slovakia have abundant resources of uranium and some gold, silver and REE deposits. Mining of uranium deposits in OTL starts only in 1950´s. Anyway during the WWII there were active mining of petroleum, gold and coal, and active experiments with wide range of materials, and also little private civil airship aircraft company in western Slovakia Trenčín, one of last places conquered by Red Army. From 1940 there were commonly known basic data about huge amounts of methane gases in Titan atmosphere, and also there were in OTL known conclusion on near pure ice on Enceladus (connected with its unusually high albedo)
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