Klaus Fuchs

Definitions of Klaus Fuchs
  1. noun
    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)
    synonyms: Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs, Fuchs
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    physicist
    a scientist trained in physics
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