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Sam's father, Chaim Yael " Hyman " Chernofski, married Gittel Rifka " Gertrude " Bobrutsky, daughter of Mordkho " Max " Bobrutsky and Sarah Fuchs, probably around 1863.
His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs.
In 1937 he moved with his parents and brother to the United States, where his father ( on advice from the Quakers who had taken the family in upon arrival in Philadelphia ) changed the family name from Fuchs to Foss.
De los Rios was born as Osvaldo Nicholas Ferrara in Buenos Aires into a musical family ; his father was a musician and his mother a well known folk singer ; he studied composition and arranging at the National Conservatory of Music under Alberto Ginastera and Teodoro Fuchs.

Fuchs and was
The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Fuchs, after nine and a half years, was released, being given time off for good behavior.
* In the late 16th century, the physician to margrave Georg Friedrich was the famous botanist, Leonhart Fuchs.
German physician Leonhart Fuchs ( 1501 – 1566 ) was one of " the three German fathers of botany ", along with Otto Brunfels ( 1489 – 1534 ) and Hieronymus Bock ( 1498 – 1554 ) ( also called Hieronymus Tragus ).
Within his lifetime, his idiom left an imprint on several composers within his personal circle, who strongly admired his music, such as Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Robert Fuchs, and Julius Röntgen, as well as on Gustav Jenner, who was Brahms's only formal composition pupil.
In January 1950, on evidence provided by the Venona intercepts, Soviet atomic spy Klaus Fuchs was arrested.
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( 29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988 ) was a German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research ( the Manhattan Project ) 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.
Klaus Fuchs was born in Rüsselsheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse, the third of four children to Lutheran pastor Emil Fuchs and his wife Else Wagner.
Fuchs ' grandmother, mother, and his older sister eventually committed suicide ( his mother in c. 1932, his sister in 1939 to avoid capture by the Nazis ), while his younger sister was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
Fuchs was put into camps on the Isle of Man and later in Quebec, Canada, from June to December 1940.
Although Fuchs was " an asset " of GRU in Britain, his " control " was transferred to the NKGB when he moved to New York.
Fuchs was one of the many Los Alamos scientists present at the Trinity test.
By revealing that America was producing one hundred kilograms of uranium-235 and twenty kilograms of plutonium per month, Fuchs made it easy for Soviet scientists to calculate the number of atomic bombs the United States possessed.
Thus, because of Klaus Fuchs, leaders of the Soviet Union knew the United States was not prepared for a nuclear war at the end of the 1940s, or even in the early 1950s.
Fuchs attended a conference of the Combined Policy Committee ( CPC ) in 1947, a committee created to facilitate exchange of atomic secrets between the highest levels of government of the U. S., Great Britain and Canada ; Donald Maclean, as British co-secretary of CPC, was also in attendance.
In 1946 when Fuchs returned to England as the first Head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, he was confronted by intelligence officers as a result of the cracking of Soviet ciphers known as the VENONA project.
Under interrogation by MI5 officer William Skardon at an informal meeting in December 1949, Fuchs initially denied being a spy and was not detained.
Later, in January 1950, Fuchs arranged another interview with Skardon and voluntarily confessed that he was a spy.
Hans Bethe once said that Klaus Fuchs was the only physicist he knew who truly changed history.
Most scholars have agreed with the assessment made by Hans Bethe in 1952, which concluded that by the time Fuchs left the thermonuclear program — the summer of 1946 — there was too little known about the mechanism of the hydrogen bomb for his information to be of any necessary use to the Soviet Union ( the successful Teller-Ulam design was not discovered until 1951 ).

Fuchs and later
As Fuchs later testified, after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 he concluded that the Soviets had a right to know what the United Kingdom ( and later the United States ) were working on in secret.
Fuchs later testified that he passed detailed information on the project to the Soviet Union through a courier known as " Raymond " ( later identified as Harry Gold ) in 1945, and further information about the hydrogen bomb in 1946 and 1947.
Soviet physicists later noted that they could see as well as the Americans eventually did that the early designs by Fuchs and Edward Teller were useless.
However, later archival work by the Soviet physicist German Goncharov has suggested that while Fuchs ' early work ( most of which is still classified in the United States, but copies of which were available to the Soviets ) did not aid the Soviets in their effort towards the hydrogen bomb, it was actually far closer to the final correct solution than was recognized at the time, and indeed spurred Soviet research into useful problems which eventually resulted in the correct answer.
A memorial to the Spartacus League | Spartacist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, commissioned by Eduard Fuchs, president of the German Communist Party in Germany designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, built by Wilhelm Pieck, and inaugurated on 13 June 1926, later destroyed by the Nazis
It later became known that Stalin was actually aware of the atomic bomb before Truman was, as he had multiple spies that had infiltrated the Manhattan Project from very early on ( notably Klaus Fuchs, Ted Hall, and David Greenglass ), while Truman had only learned about the weapon after Roosevelt's death.
The Academy in Berlin honored him with a formal memorial speech held by Kummer in 1860, and later ordered the publication of his collected works edited by Kronecker and Lazarus Fuchs.
Rudi Fuchs says in his foreword for the Catalogue of Constant Painting in 1995 " There are people who consider Constant's later work as a return to tradition.
In addition, his testimony is believed to have been vital in the successful prosecution of Klaus Fuchs, the German communist physicist who emigrated to Britain and who later stole atomic secrets for the Soviets.
Skinner ), Nuclear Physics ( initially headed by Otto Frisch, later E. Bretscher ), Reactor Physics ( John Dunworth ), Theoretical Physics ( Klaus Fuchs, later Brian Flowers ), Isotopes ( Henry Seligmann ) and Engineering ( Harold Tongue, later Robert Jackson ).
De Historia Stirpium ( 1542 with a German version in 1843 ) of Fuchs was a later publication with 509 high quality woodcuts that again paid close attention to botanical detail: it included many plants introduced to Germany in the sixteenth century that were new to science.
* Klaus Fuchs ( 1911 – 1988 ), German-born British physicist and Soviet spy, later resident of the GDR
Gouzenko had not known about Klaus Fuchs, but he had named a low level suspected GRU agent, Israel Halperin, a mathematician, who was later completely cleared.
After their separation, Theresia resettled with her young daughter to Meran, Italy where Theresia eventually met, married, and later divorced a Mr. Fuchs, heir to a brewing company.
Fuchs sacked Morris a month later ( sparking a US $ 50m breach of contract suit ) and Warner Music US was dissolved.
His next victim was Peter Fuchs who was killed four years later in 1965.
Their work resulted in a secret patent filed in 1946, and later given to the USSR by Fuchs as part of his nuclear espionage.
Fuchs ' mailbomb campaigns and his personality features are according to criminal psychologists, who later characterized him, as a highly intelligent but socially inept loner.

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