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Definition of Klaus Fuchs
1. Noun. 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).
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Literary usage of Klaus Fuchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Physicist's Labour in War and Peace: Memoirs 1933-1999 by E. Walter Kellermann (2004)
"How Klaus Fuchs Saw It As in Vienna politics kept playing a direct part in my
... Born had accepted Klaus Fuchs in his department on condition that he would ..."
2. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"We later learned that Soviet agents, beginning at least as early as 1943 with
the scientist Klaus Fuchs, had been funneling top-secret atomic information to ..."
3. Marching to Zog by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"THE FUCHS-GOLD SPY RING On February 3rd, 1949, British intelligence agents arrested
a diminutive German-born atomic scientist by the name of Klaus Fuchs. ..."
4. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb by F. G. Gosling (1999)
"12-13. 42. For details on Fuchs see Robert C. Williams, Klaus Fuchs, Atom
Spy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987). ..."
5. Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force by Robert Frank Futrell (1989)
"The matter, nevertheless, continued under consideration until late January 1950,
when Dr Klaus Fuchs, a former group leader at the Los Alamos atomic weapons ..."
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