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British People Convicted of Spying for the Soviet Union: Klaus Fuchs, Frank Bossard, Michael John Smith, Alan Nunn May, Harry Houghton
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781156303672
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Chapters: Klaus Fuchs, Frank Bossard, Michael John Smith, Alan Nunn May, Harry Houghton, Ethel Gee, Geoffrey Prime, John Vassall, Michael Bettaney. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 28 January 1988) was a German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the British and American atomic bomb research to the USSR during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first fission weapons and later, the early models of the hydrogen bomb, the first fusion weapon. Fuchs was born in Rüsselsheim, Germany, the third of four children to Lutheran pastor Emil Fuchs and his wife Else Wagner. Fuchs' father was later a professor of theology at Leipzig University. Fuchs' grandmother, mother, and one sister eventually committed suicide, while his other sister was diagnosed as schizophrenic. Fuchs attended both Leipzig University and Kiel University, and while at Kiel became active in politics. Young Fuchs joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and, in 1932, the Communist Party of Germany. In 1933, after a violent encounter with the recently installed Nazis, he fled to France and was then able to use family connections to flee to Bristol, England. He earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol in 1937, studying under Nevill Mott, and took a DSc at the University of Edinburgh while studying under Max Born. His paper on quantum mechanics, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1936, helped win him a teaching position at Edinburgh the following year. At the outbreak of war, German citizens in Britain were interned. Fuc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17317
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