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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.
Feb 7, 2024 · Klaus Fuchs Was Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison For Spying On Oppenheimer. Fuchs Only Served 9 Years In Prison. In 1950, Klaus Fuchs was convicted on four counts of breaking the Official Secrets Act after passing information to a potential enemy, the Soviet Union.
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.
Dec 12, 2022 · Klaus Fuchs (Source: Wikimedia Commons) laus Fuchs (1911-1988), a child prodigy and one of Britain’s finest atomic scientists of the 1940s, who worked on the Manhattan Project, the secret US atomic bomb program, was a socialist all his adventurous, passionate, and intense life. Like his father in 1921, he joined the student branch of the ...
Jul 29, 2019 · Frank Close’s chronicle of atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs and his betrayal is a gem, finds Ann Finkbeiner.
Aug 3, 2020 · Post-crash fascism and horrific detention of refugees — a biography traces the forces that drove nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs to treachery.
Jan 9, 2023 · The atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, was one of the most notorious figures of the early Cold War. The story of his espionage and the impact it had has been the subject of extensive historical research.
Jan 29, 1988 · Klaus Fuchs, the German-born physicist who was imprisoned in the 1950's in Britain after being convicted of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, died yesterday,...
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 Emil Julius Fuchs (1911-1988) was a German-born atomic scientist who emigrated to Great Britain in the late 1930s. He worked on the joint U.S./British effort to build the atomic bomb....
