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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
Klaus Fuchs was a German-born physicist and spy who was arrested and convicted (1950) for giving vital American and British atomic-research secrets to the Soviet Union. Fuchs studied physics and mathematics at the Universities of Leipzig and Kiel and joined the German Communist Party in 1930.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nov 13, 2009 · Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British scientist who helped developed the atomic bomb, is arrested in Great Britain for passing top-secret information about the bomb to the Soviet Union.
- Missy Sullivan
Jul 29, 2019 · A book review of Frank Close's chronicle of atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs and his betrayal of British and US nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. The reviewer praises Close's comprehensive and human storytelling, and explores Fuchs's motives, methods and consequences.
- Ann Finkbeiner
- 2019
Aug 3, 2020 · Klaus Fuchs was a German-born physicist who spied for the Soviet Union on the Manhattan Project, the US atomic-bomb programme. This book explores his motivations, his contributions and his fate in a nuanced and sympathetic way.
- Sharon Weinberger
- 2020
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Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist and part of the British Mission at Los Alamos, was a spy for the Soviet Union, passing on critical information on the atomic bomb. He was born in 1911 in Rüsselsheim, Germany, to a Lutheran minister with socialist political leanings.
Klaus Fuchs. (1911 - 1988) Klaus Fuchs was born on December 29, 1911, in Rüsselsheim, Germany. Born into a Lutheran family, Fuchs joined the Communist Party of Germany and fled to England following the rise of the Nazis in 1933.
