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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.
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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.
* 1950 – Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
* 1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
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.
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.
* Rodney P. Carlisle, " Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius ", American National Biography Online February 2000, accessed 24 September 2005.
* Mary Flowers, " Fuchs, ( Emil Julius ) Klaus ( 1911 – 1988 )", rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004,, accessed 24 September 2005.
* Robert Chadwell Williams, Klaus Fuchs: Atom Spy ( Harvard University Press, 1987 ) ISBN 0-674-50507-7
* Klaus Fuchs at Carey Sublette's NuclearWeaponArchive. org, which includes information about the specific information given by Fuchs to the Soviets from declassified KGB files
* Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response ( CIA publication ), contains letter from agents in 1949 about Klaus Fuchs.
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The quantum Hall effect was discovered by Klaus von Klitzing in 1980 when he observed the Hall conductivity to be integer multiples of a fundamental constant.
The most famous figure of the French resistance was Jean Moulin, sent in France by de Gaulle in order to link all resistance movements ; he was captured and tortured by Klaus Barbie ( the " butcher of Lyon ").
Nikolaus ' Klaus ' Barbie ( 25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991 ) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer ( rank equivalent to army captain ) and Gestapo member.
During US involvement in WW II, April 29, 1942, Socony's unescorted tanker, named Mobiloil, was sunk by a German U-boat ( U-108 captained by Klaus Schlotz ), and all 52 people survived after 86 hours adrift in lifeboats.
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.
During her career, Ono has collaborated with a diverse group of artists and musicians including John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Cornelius ( Keigo Oyamada, Naoki Shimizu and Yoko Araki ), Frank Zappa, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Jim Keltner, Earl Slick, Peaches, John Cage, David Tudor, George Maciunas, Ornette Coleman, Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Jonas Mekas, Fred DeAsis, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Yo La Tengo, and Andy Warhol ( in 1987 Ono was one of the speakers at Warhol's funeral ).
However, at this time, they had not discovered that the Russians had conducted significant nuclear espionage of the project from spies at Los Alamos, the most significant of which was done by the theoretical physicist Klaus Fuchs.
Their affair was depicted in the HBO Pictures biopic, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, in which Preminger was portrayed by Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.
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* Klaus Scherer ( born 1943 ) – Swiss psychologist and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva ; he specializes in the psychology of emotion
Klaus Maria Brandauer ( born 22 June 1943 ) is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.
The couple had four children: Klaus, born in 1933 ; Heider, born in 1934 ; Silke, born in 1939 ; and Marte, born shortly after her father's death in 1942.
In downtown Sanger is a mural of German born actress Nastassja Kinski, daughter of actor Klaus Kinski.
The novelist Theodor Fontane, the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the lieutenant colonel Otto Friedrich Ferdinand von Görschen, the general Hermann Hoth, the serial killer Karl Großmann and the actor Klaus Schwarzkopf were born in Neuruppin.
Molde FK was founded on 19 June 1911 by a group gathered by Klaus Daae Andersen ( born 30 September 1873 ); they named J. Ferninand Dahl as the inaugural chairman.
Bana and Gleeson have two children, a son, Klaus ( born August 1999 ), and a daughter, Sophia ( born April 2002 ).
Klaus Voormann ( born 29 April 1938 ) is a German Grammy Award-winning artist, musician, and record producer.
Klaus Kinski ( born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski ; 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991 ) was a German actor.
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