Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was born in Rüsselsheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse, on 29 December 1911, the third of four children of a Lutheran pastor, Emil Fuchs, and his wife Else Wagner. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His father served in the army during World War I but later became a pacifist and a socialist , joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1921.
Ursula Kuczynski (15 May 1907 – 7 July 2000), [1] also known as Ruth Werner, Ursula Beurton and Ursula Hamburger, was a German Communist activist who spied for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s, most famously as the handler of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs.
The most influential of the atomic spies was Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs, a German-born British physicist, went to the United States to work on the atomic project and became one of its lead scientists. Fuchs had become a member of the Communist Party in 1932 while still a student in Germany. With the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, Fuchs, a staunch ...
Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working at the Los Alamos Laboratory, was convicted in the United Kingdom. [6] [7] For decades, many people, including the Rosenbergs' sons (Michael and Robert Meeropol), have maintained that Ethel was innocent of spying and have sought an exoneration on her behalf from multiple U.S. presidents. [8]
The medical examiner will determine the official cause of death, though police preliminarily believe they died from hypothermia, he said. The temperature in the garage was under 32 degrees, he said.
Two days after the artist born Anthony Leonard Platt died at age 43, as confirmed by his wife Sherkita Long-Platt via a Facebook announcement, his spouse has since shared his cause of death with TMZ.
He passed on information on atomic reactors, but unlike Klaus Fuchs (who was arrested in 1950) he knew little of weapon design. May is a major character in the 2003 novel The Cloud Chamber , by Clare George, a fictional account of Cambridge physicists in the 1930s which centres on the scientific excitement of the interwar years contrasted with ...
Charleson’s cause of death comes one month after the four-time Daytime Emmy nominee died at age 79 on Jan. 12. At the time, General Hospital' s executive producer Frank Valentini announced her ...