NOUN | person | Klaus Fuchs, Fuchs, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs | British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution |
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Meaning | 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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Synonyms | Fuchs, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs | |
Instance of | physicist | A scientist trained in physics |
Spanish | Klaus Fuchs | |
Catalan | Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs |
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