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klaus fuchs

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  1. Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchsnoun

    British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)

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  1. klaus fuchs

    Klaus Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. He emigrated to the UK in 1933, became a British citizen in 1942, and was part of the UK's nuclear weapons efforts including contributing to the design of Britain's first atomic bomb. His espionage activities were discovered in 1949 and he was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment but was released after nine years, after which he moved to East Germany. His actions are often considered among the most damaging instances of espionage in history.

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  1. Klaus Fuchs

    Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and later the early models of the hydrogen bomb. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Fuchs attended the University of Leipzig, where his father was a professor of theology, and became involved in student politics, joining the student branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, the SPD's paramilitary organisation. He was expelled from the SPD in 1932, and joined the Communist Party of Germany. He went into hiding after the Reichstag fire, and fled to England, where he received his PhD from the University of Bristol under the supervision of Nevill Mott, and his DSc from the University of Edinburgh, where he worked as an assistant to Max Born. After the Second World War broke out in Europe, he was interned on the Isle of Man, and later in Canada. After he returned to Britain in 1941, he became an assistant to Rudolf Peierls, working on "Tube Alloys" – the British atomic bomb project. He began passing information on the project to the Soviet Union through Ruth Kuczynski, codenamed "Sonia", a German communist and a major in Soviet Military Intelligence who had worked with Richard Sorge's spy ring in the Far East. In 1943, Fuchs and Peierls went to Columbia University, in New York City, to work on the Manhattan Project. In August 1944 Fuchs joined the Theoretical Physics Division at the Los Alamos Laboratory, working under Hans Bethe. His chief area of expertise was the problem of imploding, necessary for the development of the plutonium bomb. After the war he worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell as the head of the Theoretical Physics Division.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of klaus fuchs in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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    The numerical value of klaus fuchs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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