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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. While at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical ...
Klaus Fuchs (born December 29, 1911, Rüsselsheim, Germany—died January 28, 1988, East Germany) 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 ...
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Nov 13, 2009 · Learn about Klaus Fuchs, who helped develop the atomic bomb for Britain and passed secrets to the Soviet Union. Find out how he was arrested, convicted and his role in the Rosenberg case.
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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
- John Cairncross. Considered the first atomic spy, John Cairncross was eventually identified as one of the Cambridge Five, a group of upper-middle class young men who had met at Cambridge University in the 1930s, became passionate communists and eventually Soviet spies during World War II and into the 1950s.
- Klaus Fuchs. Dubbed the most important atomic spy in history, Klaus Fuchs was a primary physicist on the Manhattan Project and a lead scientist at Britain's nuclear facility by 1949.
- Theodore Hall. For nearly half a century Fuchs was thought to have been the most significant spy at Los Alamos, but the secrets Ted Hall divulged to the Soviets preceded Fuchs and were also very critical.
- Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. When Klaus Fuchs confessed in January 1950, his revelations would lead to the arrest of the man to whom he had passed the atomic secrets in New Mexico, even though the courier had used an alias.
May 12, 2020 · The physicist Klaus Fuchs (1911-88) is well known as the atomic spy who gave details of everything he worked on at the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. In this enthralling and riveting ...
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.
