May 20, 2005

Eastern Europe Struggles to Halt Scientific Brain Drain

By COLIN WOODARD

Hungary tries increasing money for applied research, but many scholars are wary

Tamás Kovács expects to finish his doctorate in theoretical chemistry three years from now, but he doubts whether he will stay in Hungary after that.

"I hope that the situation will be better here by then," he says, seated in a cramped, boxy office in Eötvös Loránd University's science complex, on the banks of the Danube River. Mr. Kovács's work focuses on the

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