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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.
Jul 9, 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.
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.
Jul 24, 2023 · 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. Although Fuchs pled guilty, he tried to earn leniency due to his hope that spying for Russia would help defeat the Nazis.
Apr 19, 2009 · 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.
Jul 29, 2019 · Frank Close’s chronicle of atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs and his betrayal is a gem, finds Ann Finkbeiner.
Quick Facts. Theoretical physicist at Los Alamos and spy for the Soviet Union. Although Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (1911-1988) was a very talented theoretical physicist and was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to nuclear and hydrogen weapons at the Los Alamos Laboratory, it was not science for which he is most ...
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,...
Aug 3, 2020 · Klaus Fuchs is better remembered for his betrayal than for his science. The brilliant German theoretical physicist handed the Soviet Union secrets that allowed it to accelerate its cold-war work...
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.
