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Sep 3, 2024 · 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.
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3 days ago · In October 1936, he became the Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where, working with German-born assistants E. Walter Kellermann and Klaus Fuchs, he continued his research into physics.
1 day ago · In June 1944, at Bethe's request, Oppenheimer moved Teller out of T Division, and placed him in charge of a special group responsible for the Super, reporting directly to Oppenheimer. He was replaced by Rudolf Peierls from the British Mission, who in turn brought in Klaus Fuchs, who was later revealed to be a Soviet spy.
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Sep 15, 2024 · In 1950 physicist Klaus Fuchs, whom Peierls had hired in 1941 to assist him on the atomic bomb project and who had followed Peierls to Los Alamos, was arrested as a Soviet spy. Peierls suffered some professional embarrassment because of his association with Fuchs, and his security clearance was revoked in 1957.
3 days ago · Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
Sep 5, 2024 · The debate was settled by the confession of the British atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs that he had been spying for the Soviet Union since 1942. Fuchs had known of the American interest in a hydrogen bomb and had passed along early American data on it to the Soviets.
Sep 3, 2024 · With Robert Oppenheimer once again in the popular consciousness, on this Hiroshima Day anniversary, learn about the fascinating history of Klaus Fuchs, atomic scientist on the Manhattan Project, only to then be imprisoned in Great Britain for providing the Soviet Union with research from the Project.
