Fuchs

Fuchs  (fyks), Klaus Emil Julius 1911-1988.

German-born physicist who worked on the development of the atomic bomb in Britain and the United States and was imprisoned (1950-1959) for passing scientific secrets to the Soviet Union.

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Fuchs [fʊks fuːks]

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1. (Biographies / Fuchs, Klaus Emil (1911-1988) M, Britishnational of birth: German, SCIENCE: physicist) Klaus Emil. (klaus ˈeːmiːl). 1911-88, East German physicist. He was born in Germany, became a British citizen (1942), and was imprisoned (1950-59) for giving secret atomic research information to the Soviet Union

2. (Biographies / Fuchs, Sir Vivian Ernest (1908-1999) M, English, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorer, SCIENCE: geologist) Sir Vivian Ernest. 1908-99, English explorer and geologist: led the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-58)

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Fuchs - 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) Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs