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Klaus Fuchs

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German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)

United KingdomScientistsLived 1911 to 1988 · aged 76
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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist, atomic spy, and communist 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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1986Hervorragender Wissenschaftler des Volkes
1979Order of Karl Marx
1975National Prize of East Germany

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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist, atomic spy, and communist 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 calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb. After his conviction in 1950, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom, then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader.

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United Kingdom
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1911 to 1988 · aged 76
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