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Klaus Fuchs

1911 - 1988

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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a 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. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Fuchs attended the University of Leipzig, where his father was a professor of theology, and became involved in student politics, joining the student branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, an SPD-allied paramilitary organisation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Fuchs is the 229th most popular physicist (down from 160th in 2019), the 674th most popular biography from Germany (down from 536th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Physicist.

Klaus Fuchs was a German physicist who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1940s. He was a member of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. He was arrested in 1950 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Klaus Fuchs ranks 229 out of 851. Before him are Michio Kaku, Andrew Huxley, Makoto Kobayashi, Ettore Majorana, Alexander Prokhorov, and Frederick Reines. After him are Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jacques Charles, Victor Weisskopf, and Tsung-Dao Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Klaus Fuchs ranks 37. Before him are Niels Kaj Jerne, Feodor Lynen, Robert Johnson, Wilhelm Mohnke, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Max Frisch. After him are Trygve Haavelmo, Odysseas Elytis, Lê Đức Thọ, Richard Baer, Jules Dassin, and Lee Yoo-hyung. Among people deceased in 1988, Klaus Fuchs ranks 21. Before him are Robert A. Heinlein, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Chiang Ching-kuo, Tibor Sekelj, Juan Pujol García, and Trevor Howard. After him are Roy Orbison, Chet Baker, Hiroaki Sato, Kim Philby, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, and Virginia Satir.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Klaus Fuchs ranks 674 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861), Karl-Otto Koch (1897), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819), and Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505). After him are Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811), Max Reger (1873), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Max Wolf (1863), Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), and Erwin Neher (1944).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Klaus Fuchs ranks 37. Before him are Hans Geiger (1882), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Max Delbrück (1906), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), and Wolfgang Paul (1913). After him are Jack Steinberger (1921), Carl von Linde (1842), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Friedrich Hund (1896), and Rainer Weiss (1932).

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