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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.
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The most influential of the atomic spies was Klaus Fuchs....
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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.
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The most influential of the atomic spies was Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs, a German-born British physicist, went to the United States to work on the atomic project and became one of its lead scientists. Fuchs had become a member of the Communist Party in 1932 while still a student in Germany.
Nov 13, 2009 · Learn about the German-born British scientist who spied for the Soviet Union during World War II and the Manhattan Project. Find out how his arrest led to the discovery of other spy rings and the execution of the Rosenbergs.
- Missy Sullivan
- 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.
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (* 29. Dezember 1911 in Rüsselsheim am Main; † 28. Januar 1988 in Ost-Berlin) war ein deutsch - britischer Kernphysiker und sowjetischer Spion . Nach seiner Flucht aus Deutschland und dem Studienabschluss der Physik in Großbritannien war er später maßgeblich im amerikanischen Manhattan-Projekt beschäftigt.
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Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs ( Rüsselsheim am Main, 29 de diciembre de 1911- Berlín Oriental, 28 de enero de 1988) fue un físico teórico Alemán.
