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TheCzechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Czech:Československá akademie věd,Slovak:Česko-slovenská akadémia vied) was established in 1953 to be the scientific center forCzechoslovakia. It was succeeded by theCzech Academy of Sciences (Akademie věd České republiky) andSlovak Academy of Sciences (Slovenská akadémia vied) in 1992.
After theCommunist regime came to power in Czechoslovakia in 1948, all scientific, non-university institutions and learned societies were dissolved and, in their place, the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences was founded by Act No. 52/1952. It comprised both a complex of research institutes and a learned society. TheSlovak Academy of Sciences, established in 1942 and re-established in 1953, was a formal part of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1960 to 1992.
During the 1960s the academy operated a publishing house, the Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, some whose books and book series, such as New Horizons, were jointly published withArtia.[1]
Otto Wichterle for his invention of softcontact lenses. Wichterle was also the first president of the academy after the revival of democracy in the Czech Republic.