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Fuchs, (Emil) Klaus (Julius) 1912-88
British spy and physicist
Born in Rüsselsheim, Germany, he escaped from Nazi persecution to the UK in 1933, was interned during World War II, then naturalized in 1942. From 1943 he worked in the USA on the atom bomb, and in 1946 became head of the theoretical physics division at Harwell, UK. He was sentenced in 1950 to 14 years' imprisonment for disclosing nuclear secrets to the Russians, but was released (1959) and worked in the nuclear research centre of East Germany until 1979.
Bibliography: Robert Chadwell Williams, Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy (1987)
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