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  Klaus Fuchs - Wikipedia
Klaus Fuchs (Foto auf seinem Los-Alamos-Dienstausweis während des 2.
Fuchs wurde 1911 als Sohn des evangelischen Theologen Emil Fuchs geboren, machte sein Abitur 1928 in Eisenach und trat früh der Sozialistischen Arbeiterjugend bei.
Klaus Fuchs, Ruth Werner und der größte Spionagefall der Geschichte.
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 Klaus Fuchs - Wikipedia
Klaus Fuchs was de zoon van de toonaangevende Duitse Quaker theoloog en socialist (Religieus-Socialistische Bond en de SPD) professor Emil Fuchs.
Klaus Fuchs groeide op in Duitsland en sloot zich in 1930 aan bij de Sociaal-Democratische Partij van Duitsland (SPD).
Van 1932 tot 1933 was hij was hij politiek voorzitter van de "Rode Studenten." In juli 1933 emigreerde Fuchs naar Groot-Brittannië en daar promoveerde hij in 1937 in de wiskunde en in 1938 in de natuurkunde.
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 FUCHS, Emil
Eine protestantische Monatsschrift, XV, 5, 1969, 92; - Fuchs, Emil.
Evangelisches Sonntagsblatt für Thüringen, XXV, 9, 1971, 1 (In memoriam Emil Fuchs.
Eine protestantische Monatsschrift, XVII, 4, 1971, 70-71; - Zum Gedenken an Emil Fuchs.
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 Klaus Fuchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Fuchs later testified that he passed detailed information on the project to the Soviet Union through a courier, Harry Gold, in 1945 and further information about the hydrogen bomb in 1946 and 1947.
Fuchs' testimony to British and American intelligence agencies eventually led to the trials of David Greenglass and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the USA.
The information Fuchs passed on the hydrogen bomb was too early to be of much material use: the key methods of making a hydrogen bomb work had not yet been discovered in the United States during the time Fuchs was working on the project (the mechanism was not discovered until 1951).
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 Klaus Fuchs: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Klaus Fuchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Klaus Fuchs (Possibly Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs, December 29, 1911 - January 28, 1988) was a British physicist who was convicted of surreptitiously supplying information on the British and American atomic bomb research to the USSR.
By early 1941, Fuchs had returned to Edinburgh where he was approached by Rudolf Peierls[?] to work on the "Tube Alloys" program, the British atomic bomb research project.
Fuchs confessed in January 1950 and was convicted on March 1, 1950 and sentenced the next day to fourteen years in prison, the maximum possible for passing military secrets to a friendly nation.
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 Klaus Fuchs, British physisist and spy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Klaus Fuchs was taken to a camp located in Quebec, Canada where he would live for several months.
By the spring of 1941, Fuchs was once again engaged in his studies at the University.
Klaus Fuch's work with the Americans eventually took him to the Los Alamos, New Mexico research facility, where Klaus Fuchs was regarded as an excellent scientist and researcher, a serious man who focused with great intensity on his work.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_BFUC.HTM   (520 words)

  
 Klaus Fuchs - Manhattan Project Spy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was born in Germany in 1911.
In 1943, Fuchs was transferred to the Columbia University in New York City where he began to work on the Manhattan Project, the American atomic bomb program.
Fuchs soon confessed to his part in the theft of atomic secrets and was sentenced to fourteen years in prison, the maximum possible fine under British law for passing military secrets to a friendly nation.
www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /SPY/ROSENBERG/fuchs_k.htm   (513 words)

  
 Articles - Klaus Fuchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Klaus Fuchs was born in Rüsselsheim, Germany, the third of four children to Lutheran pastor Emil Fuchs and his wife Else Wagner.
In 1946 Fuchs returned to England and the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, that he was confronted by intelligence officers as a result of the cracking of Soviet ciphers known as the VENONA project.
Fuchs' statements to British and American intelligence agencies was used to implicate Harry Gold, a key witness in the trials of David Greenglass and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the USA.
www.worldhammock.com /articles/Klaus_Fuchs   (1174 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Klaus Emil Fuchs (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Klaus Emil Fuchs[fooks, fOOks] Pronunciation Key, 1912–88, British physicist and Communist spy, b.
Arrested in Britain in 1950, he pleaded guilty and was imprisoned.
Fuchs was released in 1959 and went to East Germany, where he was director of East Germany's Institute for Nuclear Physics until his retirement in 1979.
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 CRYONICS: Atom Spys
The Fuchs family ("Fuchs" = "fox" in German) were known as the "red foxes of Kiel," both for the color of their hair and the complexion of their politics.
Young Klaus was a socialist from the beginning, a fact ignored by the Manhattan project in the pre-cold war era.
In 1950 Fuchs spontaneously confessed to all this to the Brits (after being questioned as a peripheral part of another investig- ation entirely), shocking everybody (Fuchs made no secret of his activities after his confession, officially or to his friends, and seems to have been genuinely puzzled at how much consternat- ion they caused).
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 Klaus Fuchs
The Fuchs case is often compared to the Rosenberg case in the U.S.A. Klaus Fuchs gave atomic research information to the Soviet Union, and was tried under the U.K's Official Secrets Act at his trial in February 1950.
Klaus Fuchs was charged with four counts under Section 1(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1911, in that he communicated information concerning atomic research which was calculated to be or might have been or was intended to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy.
Klaus Fuchs died on 28 January 1988, somewhere in the former East Germany.
www.stephen-stratford.co.uk /klaus_fuchs.htm   (704 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: New Light on Klaus Fuchs by Neil Tweedie and Peter Day
Klaus Fuchs, the man who betrayed the secret of the atom bomb to the Soviet Union, believed he would be allowed to remain a member of the British nuclear weapons programme following his confession because of his importance as a scientist.
He recalled the fact that the interrogation had shown that Fuchs regards himself as the linchpin of the Harwell organisation; in his present state of mind it is almost inconceivable to Fuchs that he might be removed.
Fuchs was arrested on Feb 2, 1950, and a month later sentenced to 14 years at the Old Bailey for breaking the Official Secrets Act.
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 Klaus Fuchs -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Fuchs' testimony to British and American intelligence agencies eventually led to the trials of (Click link for more info and facts about David Greenglass) David Greenglass and (Click link for more info and facts about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the USA.
The information Fuchs passed on the hydrogen bomb was too early to be of much material use: the key methods of making a hydrogen bomb work had not yet been discovered in the United States during the time Fuchs was working on the project (the Teller-Ulam mechanism was not discovered until 1951).
On June 23, 1959 Fuchs was released and allowed to emigrate to (A city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945) Dresden, East Germany where he resumed a scientific career.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Kl/Klaus_Fuchs.htm   (597 words)

  
 Today in Technology History - Mar 1
On March 1, 1950, nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs was sent to prison for his role in a massive atomic spy ring.
Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison, but was released five years early for good behavior.
Fuchs has the dubious distinction of being the only person to contribute to the atomic bomb efforts of the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union.
www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2001/mar1.htm   (263 words)

  
 Klaus Fuchs | Biography | atomicarchive.com
In 1943, Fuchs was among the British scientists sent to the U.S. to collaborate on the atom bomb.
Fuchs later testified that he passed detailed information on the project to the Soviet Union through a courier in 1945, and further information about the hydrogen bomb in 1946 and 1947.
Fuchs confessed in January 1950 and was convicted on March 1, 1950, and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
www.atomicarchive.com /Bios/Fuchs.shtml   (307 words)

  
 News | Soviet Intelligence Agents and Suspected Agents
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (1911-88) was born in Germany and was a member of the German Communist Party in 1933, when the rise of the Nazi Party to power caused him to flee to Britain.
Fuchs was briefly interned on the outbreak of war, but was released and joined the team lead by Rudolf Peierls at Birmingham University working on atomic physics.
Fuchs was at this stage still working at Harwell, and the offer of work at Leipzig University to his father caused consternation given the sensitive nature of Fuchs' work.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /releases/2003/may22/fuchs.htm   (1968 words)

  
 The American Experience | Race for the Superbomb | Klaus Fuchs, (1911 - 1988)
Klaus Fuchs was born on December 29, 1911 in Rüsselsheim, Germany.
In 1943 Fuchs was among the British scientists sent to the U.S. to collaborate with Americans working on the atom bomb.
Fuchs made contact with a Soviet courier almost as soon as he'd arrived in the U.S, a man he knew only as Raymond, but who was in fact Harry Gold.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX54.html   (879 words)

  
 Citizen Kurchatov - Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs fled Germany before the war because he was associated with communist political organizations.
Fuchs was often surprised by the level of detail and foreknowledge of the questions.
Klaus Fuchs is released from British prison and allowed to go to East Germany.
www.pbs.org /opb/citizenk/arzamas16/fuchs.html   (211 words)

  
 AIAON | BBC ON THIS DAY | 1 | 1950: Communist spy jailed for 14 years
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, 38, a civil servant from Harwell in Berkshire, pleaded guilty to four offences under the Official Secrets Act.
Fuchs, who until his arrest last month was employed as senior principal scientific officer at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment, arrived in Britain from Germany, via France, in 1933.
Fuchs was released in 1959 and went to live in East Germany where he became deputy director of the Central Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf.
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 Nuclear Files: Library: Biographies: Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs, a refugee German physicist and Communist Party member, was employed by the United Kingdom atomic energy program during World War II, and was sent to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
Fuchs was a gifted physicist who made major contributions to the Manhattan Project in the theory of gaseous diffusion cascades, and in implosion theory.
Evidence of Fuchs spying surfaced from U.S. intelligence intercepts known as Venona, in particular a Soviet consulate massage transmitted in 1944, but not deciphered until 1949.
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 Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs denied any involvement in espionage and the intelligence services did not have enough evidence to have him arrested and charged with spying.
Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Since it has been generally agreed that Fuchs' continued employment is a constant threat to security and since our elaborate investigation has produced no dividends, I should be grateful if you would be kind enough to arrange for Fuchs' departure from Harwell as soon as is decently possible.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAfuchs.htm   (1034 words)

  
 Chronology of Soviet Espionage
Klaus Fuchs was born in Germany into a Quaker family, and lived through the rise of Nazism.
Fuchs returned to England in 1946 as head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the new British atomic energy centre at Harwell.
Fuchs began a series of ambiguous conversations with British security officials, culminating in January, 1950, in a confession.
www-personal.umich.edu /~sanders/214/other/handouts/chr_spy.html   (1685 words)

  
 The Theory of Fielding
Klaus Fuchs first passed Los Alamos data in February 1945 while on a furlough to visit his sister in Cambridge, MA; Greenglass provided Los Alamos information to Julius Rosenberg in December 1944 and again in January 1945; Ted Hall first provided information while visiting New York in October 1944.
Klaus Fuchs was born on 29 December 1911 in the village of Russelsheim, Germany.
Fuchs told Gold that he was working at a location called Los Alamos near Santa Fe, New Mexico, and gave Gold a report of about 8 pages which included information on the plutonium bomb and the implosion design (Fat Man).
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 BBC - Radio 4 - Congo
Individual MI5 agents had long believed Klaus Fuchs might be a Soviet spy.
He knew that Fuchs had been worrying about his father, a pastor who was about to take up an academic post in the Soviet zone of Germany.
And Fuchs made a full confession, explaining that he'd spied for the Russians from 1942 to 1949, that he'd given the Soviets all details of the atom bomb, even the detailed drawings.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/today/reports/archive/international/klausfuchs.shtml   (463 words)

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